Reaction of the defense attorney of the woman arrested for violence: She is a victim, she did not beat anyone, but defended herself

The 21-year-old EL, arrested on suspicion of having committed the criminal acts of domestic violence, assault on an official and destruction and damage of other people's property, did not beat her ex-husband, hit the policeman or break the inventory in the Rožaj police station, but defended herself.

This is claimed by her defender, lawyer Velija Murić, who reacted to the article published yesterday in Vijesti.

His response is published in full by Vijesti.

"In my capacity as an ex officio defense attorney, today I visited 21-year-old Rožajka EL in the Spuška prison. From her difficult confession, I learned, among other things: that she was examined by a prison neuropsychiatrist, who prescribed appropriate therapy for her, among other things, for epilepsy complained. With the person who presented herself to the police as a victim, she does not live in a married, cohabiting, or family union. She found herself in his apartment as his acquaintance from two years ago, after he started to attack her she hit him with the vases, she managed to hit him back with a glass vase.

Therefore, instead of her reporting the obvious (that is, for a short time and not getting along) violence, the opposite happened, she is reported. Police officers found her with a suitcase in a cafe at the bus station. Feeling threatened (because she doesn't have any relatives in Rožaje), she refused to go to SP, and in that persuasion, as she says, she received a strong slap from the policeman, who caused her to stumble and fall at the side door of the cafe. She didn't pull the policeman by the chest because she didn't need him, contrary to logic, it suggests that he was pulling her for the sake of apprehension. Certainly, the possible blow of the policeman in the leg area is not a blow but a possible injury in the process of applying force (there were three policemen) on the girl. She was taken to SP, and placed in a detention room. For a long time, she called out to be allowed to use the toilet, which is why she protested by hitting wooden objects in the room.

Following all that, the journalist's report was made one-sidedly, primarily based on the content of the court decision on the detention order and rejection of the appeal against that decision. In what case did the appellate court determine in more detail and argumentatively the key fact concerning the existence of the action of the act, i.e. whether the girl with the injured party was married, cohabiting or in a family union, he would establish that there was no criminal act on her part which was taken as a basis for ordering or extending her detention. Also, if the girl's status as a 'violent' had been assessed more conscientiously, he would have come to the conclusion that in this case she is a classic victim of violence, that the injuries are not from acts of violence in the family or other community. The fact that the court sided with the stronger in this case will be shown by the further course of the criminal proceedings. What I am completely convinced of for now, as her defense attorney, is the need to provide the 21-year-old girl with adequate protection, which in any case is not a measure of detention, in addition to the need not to prejudice facts and legal conclusions through journalistic reporting with a one-sided approach," he concludes. in the reaction of Murić", it is written in Murić's response delivered to Vijesti last night.