The Montenegrin system of protecting women from femicide, and violence in general, has failed again, and the state must protect the inviolable right to life, she said after the murder of the thirty-three-year-old Biljane Pavićević, human rights activist Bojana Jokić.
The President of the Board of Directors of the LGBT Forum Progres said that human life has no price and that we must invest in technical means to prevent the recurrence of such cases.
Biljana Pavićević, a citizen of Danilovgrad, who was killed by her ex-husband on August 21 in Podgorica Miljan Boskovic On August 1, she reported to the police that the thirty-seven-year-old man was threatening her.
The prosecutor assessed that there were no elements of a criminal offense, after which he was given a warning and a ban on approaching his ex-wife.
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He violated that measure 20 days later and after a verbal argument, in the Masline neighborhood of Podgorica, killed his ex-wife with a knife, and then ran away. Not long after, he was found and arrested.
"Another young life has unfortunately been extinguished and this clearly shows us that the Montenegrin system of protecting women from femicide and violence in general has failed again. How many more lives do we need to lose in order for the state to find effective mechanisms for implementing protective measures is a question for those in power. Although the measure was formally pronounced by the court, its implementation depended on the effectiveness of the police and competent authorities. In cases where there are not enough resources, such as this one, or cooperation between institutions, the measures are not effective and cost us our lives," said Jokić.
She pointed out that she is a former Acting Supreme State Prosecutor, Maja Jovanovic, with the binding instruction for detention made a great contribution to solving that problem when it comes to criminal acts.
"But if the police do not have the resources and the system to follow up when protective measures are proposed, whether they are felonies or misdemeanors, such as this restraining order issued by the misdemeanor court, and are unable to enforce them, the system fails the children they are left without mothers, young women lose their lives and we lose trust and hope that the state has the strength to protect us," she said.
She said that protective measures must be more effective:
"Protective measures must be effective, because if they are not, then they are just a dead letter on paper, like most of the norms in our system. The state must invest resources in the protection of basic human rights, the right to life is inviolable and the state is committed to protecting it according to all international conventions. Human life has no price and we must invest in technical means to prevent the recurrence of such cases", said Jokić.
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