Muratović: Citizens should get involved and make their full contribution in the fight against violence

The President of the Bosniak Party Women's Forum, Sabina Muratović, appealed to the Police Directorate, the competent prosecutor's office and the Center for Social Work to actively get involved and react adequately with concrete measures towards the group of perpetrators of violence against children that occurred in Podgorica, in the Blok V neighborhood.

"We live in a time when peer violence has become an almost everyday occurrence. We are witnessing that violence initially most often occurred in schools, then moved to schoolyards, and now has spread to the streets. If the competent authorities do not react adequately, the safety of children and their freedom of movement becomes questionable," she said.

The fact that a group of minors, numbering between 20-30, was walking freely through the city with balaclavas on their heads and bars in their hands, without the police registering it and reacting in a timely manner, shows us that there is definitely a problem in the citizen security system, said Muratović.

"And yet this same group manages to intercept children on two occasions, surround them for no reason, and inflict physical injuries on them?!" she wondered.

Muratović emphasized that urgent reforms in education are needed.

"A sufficient number of professional associates should be employed in the pedagogical-psychological service in order to take preventive action, to recognize deviant behavior in time and to influence its suppression. It is also necessary to make changes in the education sector, where greater focus would be placed on children learning more about tolerance and empathy through the education system," believes the president of the BS Women's Forum.

She called on all citizens to get involved and make their full contribution to the fight against violence.

"A special contribution to combating this deviant form of behavior must be made by all of us as parents, to influence our children through the process of upbringing and education, guiding them towards the right values, so that our children do not have role models from security-related people and their behavior patterns. The school education system itself cannot solve this without a great contribution from citizens and other competent institutions that will use criminal policy to demotivate potential perpetrators of similar acts. I call on all citizens of Montenegro to make a full contribution together and do everything in our power to make our country a place for a safe life for all of us and our children, because that is the only right path we should follow, everything else is a detour," concluded Muratović.