The New Serbian Democracy (NSD) apologizes to all those who found in the words of the President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, what was not there, what he did not mean and what was not there, and to those who wanted to find in those words what they wanted to challenge and that those words, intended to encourage reconciliation, brought mental pain, it was announced from NSD.
"Let everyone do their job, state institutions, media, politicians, but it would be good if the concentration of the media public was on the main ones, instead of on secondary topics that serve exclusively to target those who are the best at their job, like Marko Kovačević," it states. in the announcement.
From that party, they said that "it is probably strange to everyone" that Kovačević's speech, which was delivered on Thursday, became the main media topic on Sunday, "and precisely on Kurban Bayram, the holiday of all Muslims in the world and on the day when Montenegro was visited by the coordinator of the State Department for the fight against corruption, Richard Nephew, who on that occasion spoke with SDT regarding the fight against high corruption".
They added that it is not difficult to conclude that the high level of corruption related to, they say, the former regime can direct the media scene and "cover that important meeting of the SDT and the coordinator of the State Department with a topic that happened days before".
"In addition, the President of Bulgaria, Mr. Rumen Radev, arrived in our country yesterday, who was simply sidelined in the Montenegrin media because of a few sentences from the speech of the Vice-President of the NSD and the President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević," the announcement reads.
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The Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica opened a case yesterday regarding the recent statement of the President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, that "those who do not want to be like brothers, but look like Turks, will be treated like Turks" - "Vijesti" has learned unofficially.
Kovačević announced this on Thursday, during a speech at the commemoration of the 166th anniversary of the Battle of Grahovac, addressing, as he said, "former rulers and their followers".
The Prosecutor's Office is investigating whether there is a criminal offense in that statement - hate speech.
According to "Vijesti" information, the prosecutor Ana Kalezić was in charge of the case, and ordered the police to call Kovačević today and take a statement from him. The source also states that yesterday during the day she gave written orders to the police on how to act and what to collect from the evidence, in order to make a decision.
In his speech, Kovačević said that last year "one of the former rulers and their families" asked - "what does Spasovdan have to do with the Battle of Grahovačko".
"You can imagine how much they have to do with those people who defeated the Turks on Salvation Day... And that should always be in front of your eyes, that they are unknown, that the path to the truth is simply not open to them and that they simply look more like foreigners but on ourselves... We will work to ensure that they also remember our old glory, that they also remember our ancestors, that they also offer a prayer to God with us... We will be patient, we will always wait with an open heart and open arms with with the question - are we brothers? And if someone doesn't want us to be brothers, if someone wants to look more like the Turks, then, by God, in the future we will treat them like the Turks," he said.
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