The director of the Safe Women's House (SŽK), Ljiljana Raičević, said that in the event of a report of domestic violence, the competent institutions should do a complete analysis of the previous behavior of the abuser, so that some cases do not end tragically.
Raičević told the Mediabiro agency that she believes that an institutional error was made in the case of the woman from Bar, and that the perpetrator should not have been released because the risk assessment would probably be that he is a "potential serious abuser".
He reminds that there were reports even before the tragic end, but that the risk assessment was not done and is almost never done.
"We constantly remind the centers for social work and the police that they have to sit down and in case of violence assess how dangerous the abuser is for the future, and whether it is enough to keep him for 72 hours and let him go," Raičević said, adding that they should to perform a complete analysis of the abuser's previous behavior.
She said that the Safe Women's House has been appealing for years to take the cases of returnees seriously, because, as she says, they always result in something worst. He points out that it is only necessary to remember the case of Šejla Bakija from Tuzi, because it is clearly seen that the situation developed that way.
In Montenegro, as she said, there are no specialized offices or people to talk to people who committed violence.
"No one works with those thugs, and I am convinced that no one pays attention to them in prison," Raičević said.
She also points out that the women's shelter, which provides temporary protection, is not enough to protect a woman who is unemployed and has no family support. Raičević said that a strong patriarchal system still rules in the country, which forces women to suffer domestic violence, and that everyone will tell the woman that she should have kept quiet or behaved differently.
"She will rarely hear a story that will push her forward and encourage her to report violence," Raičević said.
She said that in cases that end tragically, those who heard or saw the violence and did not report it are to some extent to blame.
"People here don't report violence because they think it's in the family and there's no need for a third party to interfere." If we continue to think like that, we are not helping women and children," Raičević said.
She appealed to the institutions to punish bullies.
"Start throwing the abuser out of the house, don't fill the shelter with women and children. Enough of the story that he was intoxicated, because he knew perfectly well what he was doing. Why didn't he go fight someone stronger? Thugs are cowards and everything male is killed in them when they raise a hand on a woman," Raičević concluded.
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