The Police Directorate announced that they identified Montenegrin citizens MD and MR as persons who committed the criminal offense of endangering security on September 24, 2010, to the detriment of Slavoljub Šćekić, Milan Popović, Željko Ivanović, Ljubiša Mitrović and Balša Brković, employees of Television Vijesti. and the independent daily "Vijesti".
Television Vijesti has learned that it is about Milenko Mića Rabrenović and Darko Mijović.
The Police Administration reminds that on the specified day, letters addressed to those five injured persons were delivered to the address of TV Vijesti and ND "Vijesti" via regular mail, with the message: "You're done, you're next!!!".
Nevertheless, the case of threats will not have a judicial epilogue.
"Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, this case cannot be prosecuted by the state prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, since the acting prosecutor, during consultations in this case, held in the past period, stated that the case is time-barred," the Police Directorate announced. .
They said that, in the coming period, the police will continue activities to protect the integrity and safety of journalists and other employees in the media through measures and actions within the scope of their competence. They also say that any verbal or physical attack on journalists and media workers is considered inadmissible.
"Journalists and persons employed in the media should be provided with a safe social environment in which they will be protected from any attacks on their personality due to the profession they engage in, which is extremely important for the development and progress of a democratic society," the statement concludes.
Milenko Mića Rabrenović was once in charge of the security of the former police chief Veselin Veljović, and a court case was held against him due to accusations that in 2011 he sent monstrous threats to the then "Vijesti" journalist Olivera Lakić and her family. Aleksandar Mijajlović, the former informal co-owner of "Bemaks", was also arrested on suspicion of being part of a criminal group that smuggled cigarettes. As unofficially learned by Vijesti Television, the police obtained his DNA through expert examination, which did not exist in the database and which coincided with the DNA found on the letters received by the directors and editors of Vijesti 14 years ago.
The other person identified is Darko Mijović from Podgorica, who was killed in Germany in May 2019 together with Nikola Jovanović from Barana. According to the media, they were connected to the Bar branch of the Skaljar criminal clan, headed by Alan Kožar, who was also killed. On March 29, 2019, Mijović was acquitted of the charge that on July 8, 2016, together with Baranin Vladimir Ulam, he had treacherously killed Nemanja Medina from Petrovac.
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