The Women's Club of the Parliament of Montenegro announced today that it "strongly condemns the event in Karabuško Polje, where a young life was lost".
Nineteen-year-old Šejla Bakija was killed by gunshots, while her father Šaban Bakija (42) was seriously wounded on September 30 in a shooting on Karabuško polje in Tuzi.
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According to the police, twenty-eight-year-old Ilir Đokaj shot at them with a pistol. He is the unmarried husband of the murdered woman.
The Police Administration announced today that Đokaj was previously reported for domestic violence, and the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica assessed that there was no criminal offense.
"This event only exposed the increasingly frequent, very careless behavior of state authorities when it comes to domestic violence, which often results in the murder of the victim, unfortunately mostly young women. This event is an alarm for all institutions of the system, the center for social work, the police , as well as the prosecution and the judiciary, which do not show enough will to adequately, timely and effectively deal with abusers and prevent tragic events. In this case, it was about a returnee, who made threats about which the victim warned the competent authorities, but unfortunately the institutions of the system scheduled... Until more...", the announcement of the Women's Club of the Parliament of Montenegro, signed by the co-chairs of the Women's Club, Branka Bošnjak, the Vice-President of the Assembly, and Vesna Pavićević, MP, points out.
The announcement adds that the time of corona, lockdown, job losses, poverty are only catalysts for domestic violence.
"That is why the institutions of the system must show strength, to protect women and children, who are most often victims of violence, and not to allow violent women, returnees to move freely and carry out their monstrous plans. We ask that the responsibility of the police officers who acted according to reports in this case and all those in the prosecutor's office who allowed such a crime to happen, despite the cries and warnings of the victim, which could obviously have been prevented. We express our concern and wonder how many more victims are needed for the authorities to start doing their job," he says. in the announcement of the Women's Club of the Parliament of Montenegro.
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