The Berane police have detained five people on suspicion of mistreating Vijesti and Pobjeda photojournalists Boris Pejović and Stevo Vasiljević in Gornji Zaostr today. Danko Femić from Bijelo Polje, who is suspected of committing the crime of endangering security, has been arrested, the police announced.
"Police officers from the Berane Security Department have detained five persons in relation to whom they are establishing all the facts related to the attack on the two journalists mentioned, of whom DF, born in Bijelo Polje and residing in Podgorica, was deprived of his liberty by order of the state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Berane, on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of endangering security.
"At the same time, other measures and actions are being taken to identify all participants who in any way participated in the attack on journalists and the prevention of the performance of journalistic tasks," the Police Directorate said in a statement.
The police said that in the continuation of further activities, they are working with other organizational units to identify other persons, while an intensive search is underway for one person whose identity has been established.
The public will be informed in phases about all further activities undertaken, they added.
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After the journalist team parked their car above the place where the tent was set up and began photographing the removal of the monument to Đurišić, several people ran towards the photojournalists and began aggressively threatening them, getting in their faces, and seizing their cameras and equipment.
After they took away and then broke some of Vasiljević's equipment, they forcibly brought him into a tent, where several people began to hit and threaten him.
Several locals managed to pull him out of the angry crowd and took him to the church to speak with the unnamed bishop.
Pejović and Vasiljević were forced under threat to delete all the material from the camera, after which Vasiljević was taken away in a Mercedes jeep down the road.
Vijesti photojournalist Boris Pejović was threatened that if "anything gets published in Vijesti" he would be "killed with my bare hands".
The psychological harassment of the journalist teams from "Vijesti" and "Pobjeda" lasted for more than an hour, after which they were released.
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