During the removal of the monument to the Chetnik commander and war criminal Pavle Đurišić in Gornji Zaostr near Berane, dozens of people who attended the event attacked photojournalists from Vijesti and Pobjeda, Boris Pejović and Stevo Vasiljević.
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.
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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.
While all this was happening, two plainclothes police officers with a Dacia Duster police vehicle were just watching the attack on the journalist crews.
The photojournalists were repeatedly threatened with death, while all the while being insulted and called "spies."
Vasiljević is also a long-time photojournalist for the British news agency Reuters.
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