Pribilović (DPS) claims that there was no peer violence in Bar, but "violence on ethnic and religious grounds".

Deputy of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Suzana Pribilović claims that there was no peer violence in Bar, but "violence on an ethnic and religious basis".

The mother of one of the juveniles from Sarajevo who was attacked in Bar, journalist Arduana Pribinja, said yesterday that she believes that it is solely about juvenile delinquency and that the case has no other background.

Two nights ago, a group of young men in Bar physically attacked two athletes of the Sarajevo Athletic Club who came to Montenegro for training.

Because of the attack on them, 72-year-old Božidar Kaluđerović from Bar was detained for up to XNUMX hours after he was questioned in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Bar. It was announced earlier that four minors from Bar will be held criminally responsible for the attack on them.

Minors from Sarajevo were assisted in the Emergency Medical Service and the General Hospital in Bar. One of the minors was diagnosed with a serious injury in the form of a broken nose and jaw bone, which is why he was transported to the Clinical Center of Montenegro for further hospitalization.

"Unfortunately, the majority of our media and responsible officials talk about the attack on athletes from Sarajevo as "peer violence". But some children did not fight there in front of the school over some girl or who would play basketball first. That is why this is not a case of peer violence. . This is violence on an ethnic and religious basis. Boys are attacked solely because of their ethnic and religious affiliation, and until it is defined as such, and condemned in the media and politically, it will not even be adequately addressed in society. That is, it will be hidden behind platitudes about 'peer violence', but in fact it is much more dangerous," Pribilović stated in the statement.

In a statement, Pribilović stated that such practice will continue to "sweep under the carpet" the fact that "in Montenegro, hatred and intolerance towards members of other ethnic and religious groups has been growing lately and that this is not the first, and unfortunately not the last such case".

"That is why it is important to raise awareness in society about the alarming motives behind such attacks, ethnically and religiously colored. It is important to condemn those actors of our society and associations who hide behind religion and actually sow the seeds of division and hatred towards others, and indoctrinate young people hatred towards the other and the different. Unfortunately, all of this reminds us of our not-so-long, dark past, of incidents that were apparently banal and followed by increasingly worse and more dangerous ones. That is why we as a society are obliged, to begin with, to call disastrous phenomena by their right name , and not to hide them with euphemisms and wrong diagnoses of the state of society," concluded Pribilović.