Attack on journalists, Esad Kocan, Podgorica 27.03.2021.

Translations: Podgorica 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Podgorica
• Gender

  Male
• Victim(s) name

  Esad Kočan

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Monitor
• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  27.03.2021
• City

  Podgorica
• Perpetrator(s)

  Known (suspected)
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  Actual attacks on journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

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

  No

The editor-in-chief of “Monitor”, Esad Kocan, was attacked on March 27, in front of his apartment in Podgorica.

He was first verbally and then physically attacked by a fifty-five-year-old D.S, who was subsequently arrested and charged with the criminal offense of endangering safety.

The police announced that Kocan reported on Saturday night that an unknown person approached him in front of the building where he lives at around 5 pm, who addressed him with insulting and threatening words, and that at one point he physically attacked him.

“E.K. went to his apartment and called a friend to go with him to the police station to report the incident. After leaving the building, the suspect continued with the insults and started physically attacking E.K. who on that occasion pushed him away with the stick he had with him, according to E.K. The police identified the person and arrested him”, the statement reads.

10/18/2021 In the Basic Court in Podgorica, Sukovic was sentenced to 10 months in prison and banned from approaching the editor-in-chief of the weekly Monitor at a distance of less than 100 meters, as well as mandatory treatment in a psychiatric institution.