Other Threats to Journalists, Group of Media, Podgorica, 26.06.2025

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Other Threats to Journalists, Group of Media, Podgorica, 26.06.2025

Translations: Podgorica 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Podgorica
  • Who was attacked?
    Group
  • Group members' names and surnames
    TV E, M portal and Portal Analitika

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    TV E, M portal and Portal Analitika
  • Type of media platform
    Television
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    https://www.portalanalitika.me/clanak/bogdanovic-targetirao-novinare-televizije-e-m-portala-i-portala-analitika-tvrdi-da-kriminalni-klanovi-placaju-po-tekstu-i-do-8000-eura-video

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    26.06.2025
  • City
    Podgorica
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was not reported to the authorities
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    Politician(s) / political party(ies) (other than public officials)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Through media outlets (broadcast, print, online)
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists
  • Type of threat
    Other

  • Action by the authorities

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly

During a debate in the Montenegrin Parliament, the head of the parliamentary group of Democratic Montenegro Boris Bogdanović, targeted journalists from Television E, M Portal, and Portal Analitika, claiming that they are on the payroll of both the Kavac and Skaljari criminal clans, and that they receive up to 8,000 euros per article.

“Articles that protect corrupt police officers, officers and non-commissioned officers are not written to be read, but to be cashed in. Because the Kavac and Skaljari criminal clans pay certain individuals up to 8,000 euros. Not weekly, not monthly, not yearly – but per article,” said Bogdanović.

He told that these media outlets, along with the company Bemax, are obstacles to what he called the process of the country’s recovery from the metastasized links between the police, the Armed Forces of Montenegro, and the National Security Agency with organized crime, claiming they are protected by “the boss.”

“And above all of them, they are protected by the boss. Not the journalist, not the editor, but the real owner. The boss and those who call him boss. Those who never knew what a state is, because they always thought it was theirs,” said Bogdanović.