Femić gets 30 days in custody, could commit another crime if released

Danko Femić, from Podgorica, was ordered to be detained for up to 30 days, due to reasonable suspicion that he committed two criminal offenses - coercion, to the detriment of Stevo Vasilijević and Boris Pejović, as well as the criminal offense - endangering security, to the detriment of Pejović.

This is the decision of the investigating judge of the Basic Court in Berane, Ivan V. Došljak, at the proposal of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office there.

Photojournalists from Vijesti and Pobjeda - Pejović and Vasiljević, were attacked during their work assignment, while they were photographing the removal of the statue of war criminal, Chetnik Pavle Đurišić in Gornji Zaostar.

Vasiljević was then physically abused, and Pejović and Vijesti journalist Balša Rudović were psychologically abused, after they tried to record the monument being removed by those who had erected it the day before - the residents of that Berane village.

The Court notes that Femić was remanded in custody due to circumstances indicating a risk that the previously convicted person could commit a new criminal offense if released.

"The detention was ordered due to the existence of circumstances indicating the risk that the suspect - who has previously been convicted, if released, could commit the criminal offense he is threatening, given that the criminal offenses were committed in a particularly brazen and reckless manner, in a public place and in the presence of several persons, as well as the risk of obstructing the proceedings by influencing currently unknown accomplices, whose identity and role in the proceedings so far have not yet been determined, and according to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Berane, an analysis of photo and video recordings of the event is underway by the Police Directorate, which is working to establish the identity, or rather, the identification of all persons who participated in the incident in question," the statement states.

He, as it is written, on August 8, 2025, forcibly forced Vasiljević to delete the photos he had taken at the scene, thereby committing a criminal offense - coercion...

"On the same day and at the same place, at around 14,10:14,40 p.m., in the village of Gornje Zaostro, Berane Municipality, capable of understanding the significance of his act and of directing his actions and aware of the prohibition of the act he wanted to commit, although he knew that his act was prohibited, he forcibly forced the DN Vijesti photojournalist, the injured party Boris Pejović, who was performing tasks of public importance - reporting on the event of the removal of the monument to Pavle Đurišić, to delete the photos from the camera, which he had taken on the spot, after tearing the camera with the memory card from his neck - thereby committing the criminal offense of coercion... And on the same day and at the same place, at around XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., capable of understanding the significance of his act and of directing his actions and aware of the prohibition of the act he wanted to commit, although he knew that it was prohibited, by threatening to attack the life and body of the injured party Boris Pejović, the DN Vijesti photojournalist, who was performing tasks of public importance - reporting on the event of the removal of the monument to Pavle Đurišić, repeatedly addressed serious words to threats: 'If any photo is published in Vijesti or anywhere else, I will find you and kill you, I have nothing to lose, I am Danko Femić from Zabjelo', and after he answered the phone at his sister's call, he again made the threat: 'Hang up, I will take your phone and break it', which words caused him to feel fear and threatened his life - thereby committing the criminal offense of endangering security," the court statement added.

The unfortunate event was preceded by inflammatory rhetoric at the liturgy held by the Metropolitan of Budimlje-Niksic of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Metodije, on the eve of the unveiling of the monument. He said that they were not afraid of the state, or “their power, which cannot even bring order to the streets,” or of young people in expensive suits “who have occupied high political and state positions and think they can do as they please and think.”