Prosecution dismisses criminal charges against Kovačević: He did not incite hatred with his speech at Grahovo

The President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, will not be held accountable for the criminal offense of inciting national, racial and religious hatred due to a speech in Grahovo, because the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica dismissed the criminal charges against him.

"The Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, in a case it formed on its own initiative against MK, regarding a speech during the commemoration of the Battle of Grahovac on June 13.06.2024, XNUMX, due to grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of inciting national, racial and religious hatred, after conducting an investigation and questioning MK as a suspect, issued a decision to dismiss the criminal report because it assessed that there was no reasonable suspicion that he committed the aforementioned criminal offense, nor any other criminal offense for which he is prosecuted ex officio, but that he used hate speech in the specific speech and thus committed a misdemeanor, for which reasons the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica submitted a request to initiate misdemeanor proceedings with the Court for Misdemeanors," the prosecutor's office announced.