Physical assault, Olivera Lakic, Podgorica, 08.05.2018.

TUMM •︎ 09/05/2018

Physical assault, Olivera Lakic, Podgorica, 08.05.2018.

Translations: Podgorica 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Podgorica
  • Gender
    Female
  • Victim(s) name
    Olivera Lakić

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Vijesti
  • Type of media platform
    Printed Media
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Mediji

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    08.05.2018
  • City
    Podgorica
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists

  • Action by the authorities

  • Public prosecutor's action
    Odredio istragu

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

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

Journalist of Vijesti Olivera Lakic was wounded on May 8, at 9 o’clock pm outside the building where she lives, on St. Petra Cetinjskog boulevard in Podgorica. Lakic, who was beaten six years ago on the same place, waited the man who shot her in the leg. When she fell on the sidewalk wounded, she saw that at least two more men were fleeing.

Nine months after the attempt of murder of journalist Olivera Lakic, from the Montenegrin Police Directorate announced that they solved the case, but it is still not clear on the basis of which evidences it was established that Filip Besovic, from Podgorica, followed and shoot in Lakic. It wasn’t announced what are the motives for she to be the target of a criminal group to which Besovic allegedly belongs.

Lakic has a shotgun wound of the right lower leg and she is out of life’s danger.

According to police information, the assailant fled through the port, and in a bush a few meters away, the inspectors found a hand-held lamp.

The wounded journalist has written about cigarette smuggling in recent months, as well as earlier. At the beginning of 2011, she was investigating whether the Tara factory in Mojkovac and its warehouse in Donja Gorica produced and stored the smuggled cigarettes.

In her articles, it was said that police officers and the National Security Agency officers were linked with this illegal operation. Since February 2011, she has been disturbed and threatened, and in March 2012 she was beaten in the same place.