Public service journalist Jovana Božarić-Stanišić said in the RTCG morning program during a conversation on the topic of violence against women that women sometimes provoke men "to behave inappropriately".
She announced this during a conversation with SOS telephone coordinator Biljana Zeković.
"It doesn't always have to be the way you gave the example. I mean, there is another side. I am guided by the fact that when a woman is about to avoid something or not say something in order not to provoke the opposite side, she should stop. There are women that don't interrupt, there really are," said Božarić-Stanišić.
The video clip of Božarić-Stanišić's statement spread on social networks, and the general director of Radio Television of Montenegro Boris Raonic ordered that the attachment be sent to the Ombudsman RTCG, "so that we can start the procedure".
Former member of the RTCG Council and human rights activist Bojana Jokić said that standards and principles require balance, and that in the attachment you can see an attempt to justify violence.
"The program standards and principles, the statute, and the Public Broadcaster Act itself prohibit any kind of inappropriate behavior towards any vulnerable category, they require balance and balance, which we cannot see here - because the only thing I see is that the presenter is trying to justify violence with the usual misogyny with rhetoric that suggests that women are to blame for the violence they suffer, because they cause it," wrote Jokić.
He believes that this kind of stigmatization of women who are victims of violence and this kind of rhetoric are "an encouraging call for all abusers who, in their perverted minds, treat women as an object that is only there to serve their purpose (be it reproduction or other types of "women's" jobs in question), without the right to debate".
"I demand from the Council and the management of the RTCG to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the person responsible in accordance with the prescribed procedures and clearly stand up for the protection of women and thereby show us that we have allies in the Public Service of Montenegro," said Jokić.
Milica Špajak, a member of the Council of the RTCG, said that she sent a complaint to the Ombudsman of the Public Service and demanded the initiation of disciplinary proceedings.
"As a member of the RTCG Council, I submitted a complaint to the Ombudsman of RTCG and demanded the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against presenter Božarić-Stanišić. Scandalous personal attitudes cannot be part of the Public Service program, and there is no justification for violence," Špajak wrote on her Facebook profile.
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