Property destruction, Dobrilo Malidzan, Podgorica, 17.10.2015.

Translations: Podgorica 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Podgorica
• Gender

  Male

• Media outlet

• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  17.10.2015
• Perpetrator(s)

  Not known
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  Other threats to journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Public prosecutor's action

  Podigao optužnicu

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  No

Dobrilo Malidzan, photojournalist of the daily newspaper “Pobjeda”, filed a complaint against an unknown person who damaged camera, owned by “Pobjeda”.
He was on duty during the protest, when he wanted to take a picture of a person in a wheelchair. But after noticing that the person did not have both lower limbs, he gave up of it. When he was asked why he was taking pictures of that person, Malidzan tried to explain that he was not doing that, showing him his camera in order to prove that. But the person took his camera and smashed it.
Deputy Basic State Prosecutor pleaded that it was a criminal offense that should be prosecuted privately and demanded that the injured party, after the identification of the person, should get his personal data.
The person who smashed the camera was warned against such behavior, and his data were further outsourced to photojournalist for submission of private prosecution. Malidzan did not initiate private prosecution against the person who interfered in his work.