Intimidation, Sinisa Lukovic, Tivat, 17.10.2016.

Translations: Podgorica 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Podgorica
• Gender

  Male

• Media outlet

• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  17.10.2016
• Perpetrator(s)

  Known (suspected)
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  Other threats to journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Public prosecutor's action

  Odbacio tužbe

• Action taken by the journalists' association

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

  Yes

The reporter of the daily newspaper “Vijesti” from Tivat, Sinisa Lukovic, received threats from a citizen Bozidar Martinovic, convicted for smuggling drugs, just because the journalist published details of the incident that occurred on the day of parliamentary elections, in which the main actor was Martinovic.

On election day Martinovic took his his ballot out of the polling station number 17 in Tivat. According to the witness, he then started yelling and cursing all those who do not vote for the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).

Martinovic said these threats while at the door step of the journalist Lukovic’s family house, in the presence of his family.

He said to Lukovic “you don’t know what’s coming to you”.

Deputy Basic State Prosecutor in Kotor, Tanja Colan Deretic, judged that in this case there were no elements of criminal offense, which is prosecuted ex officio, and that it was a misdemeanor.