PODGORICA, 26.03.2021. – The Commission for monitoring the actions of the authorities in investigations of cases of threats and violence against journalists, murders of journalists and attacks on media property, strongly condemned the attack on journalist Sead Sadiković.
“We call on the competent institutions to, with full respect for the presumption of innocence, urgently and indiscriminately, carry out the procedure of shedding light on the case of the attack on Sadikovic and severely punish the perpetrators of events that cannot serve on anyone’s honor and which are sending one of the ugliest images of Montenegro to the domestic and the international public”, it is stated in the announcement.
The Commission said that no one has the right to make excuses anymore and that investigations of attacks on journalists must be faster, more efficient and more effective, and that the penal policy should be appropriate to the gravity of the crime.
“Everything must be done to completely eliminate the risk that the perpetrators of these heinous acts will go unpunished or even undetected, which was unfortunately the practice in the previous period. Attacks on journalists as well as on any citizen are a key issue of democratic maturity of Montenegrin society that must be resolved in order for the basic right to physical integrity of an individual and freedom of speech, as one of the basic achievements of modern civilization, to continue living in a free Montenegro, with full lungs and without any compromise”, the Commission announced.
They also condemned the attack on journalist of Vijesti daily, Jelena Jovanovic.
The Commission requested from the police and the prosecutor’s office all the documentation related to the mentioned attacks, whose investigations will be a special subject of attention in its further work.