Actual attacks on journalists, Vladimir Otasevic, Podgorica, 03.12.2019.

TUMM •︎ 09/12/2019

Actual attacks on journalists, Vladimir Otasevic, Podgorica, 03.12.2019.

Translations: Podgorica 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Podgorica
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Vladimir Otašević

  • Media outlet

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

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    03.12.2019
  • City
    Podgorica
  • Attacked by
    Authorities - individuals
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists

  • Action by the authorities

  • Public prosecutor's action
    Tužilac je odbacio krivičnu prijavu i podnio zahtjev za vođenje prekršajnog postupka zbog kršenja Zakona o javnom redu i miru.

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

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

In the shopping mall Delta, journalist Vladimir Otasevic was trying to photograph businessman Zoran Becirovic in the company of Senior State Prosecutor Milos Soskic, when he was attacked by bodyguard of Becirovic – he punched him, threatened and insulted him.

The journalist claims that the prosecutor had been calmly watching the attack on him.

Few days before the incident in the Delta, Becirovic was arrested by order of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office on suspicion of threatening one of the expert witnesses and charged with committing a criminal offense – obstruction of proof. It turned out that the bodyguard, Mladen Mijatovic, is an employee of the Ministry of the Interior Affairs and that he did not have the Ministry’s license for this engagement.

The Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica has rejected the criminal charges because Mijatovic’s actions “do not contain the essential elements of the crime, nor any other criminal offense prosecuted ex officio”.