Country | MN |
Name and Surname | Danica Nikolic |
Gender | Female |
Date | 11/09/2022 |
City / Location | Podgorica |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
By whom | To journalists by citizens |
Type of media | online |
Media name | M portal |
Source | M portal |
Legal closure | Ongoing (or case not closed) |
Judiciary status | Ongoing before the Basic court in Podgorica. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | SMCG condemned the attack. |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the police Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office Case was initiated ex officio by the Prosecutor’s Office |
The editor of the M portal, Danica Nikolic, reported on September 11 to the Podgorica Security Center that she received death threats sent to her official email address. In this case, the basic state prosecution instituted a case. As stated on the M portal, she received three emails with threatening content, in which, among other things, it is stated that she will be “hanged for example”. Threatening emails arrived from the address [email protected].
In her statement, Nikolic stated that the reason for these threats was exclusively her professional journalistic work on the M portal.
The trial began on December 22, 2022.