Country | MN |
Name and Surname | Antena M |
Gender | Group |
Date | 26/05/2021 |
City / Location | Podgorica |
Type of incident | Threats against media outlets and organizations |
By whom | To journalists by citizens |
Type of media | online |
Media name | Antena M |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | SMCG strongly condemned this attack. |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office |
On May 26, the editor-in-chief of Antena M, Darko Sukovic, and the editorial office received open death threats via social network Facebook from an account called Marko Aprcovic.
“You are also on the list, Sukovic. Just so you know. I’m just going to kidnap you and torture you for hours. I’ll drop the bomb on you there. Marko Aprcovic, with his head and beard”, he wrote in the message that arrived on the official Facebook page of Antena M.
In the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Kotor, a case was formed against S.M. for the criminal offense of endangering security, and by the verdict of the Basic Court in Kotor he was sentenced to a suspended sentence of four months in prison. The verdict has not yet become final.