Country | MN |
Name and Surname | Sead Sadikovic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 01/04/2018 |
City / Location | Bijelo Polje |
Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
By whom | To journalists by citizens |
Name of the perpetrator | Hilmo Pepic and Ilhan Pepic |
Type of media | Radio and television |
Media name | TV Vijesti |
Source | media |
Public prosecutor | Investigation |
Judiciary status | Ilhan Pepic is sentenced to seven, and Hilmija Pepić is sentenced to four months in prison. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | Trade Union of Media of Montenegro (SMCG) expressed its great concern regarding the activation of the explosive device in front of Sead Sadikovic’s home in Bijelo Polje. It called upon relevant authorities to urgently determine whether Sadiković was a target and if he was, why. SMCG stressed out that this case was only a continuation of a series of street explosions and murders which happened in Montenegrin towns in the past days, and which raised citizens’ concerns. |
On April 1, in Bijelo Polje, an explosive device was activated in front of family house of a journalist Sead Sadikovic. In the explosion, car that did not belong to Sadikovic and his family, was damaged.
Sadikovic said that the vehicle was parked in a place where he regularly, on a daily basis, parked his car.
On Monday, April 2, police identified and detained suspects, Ilhan and Hilmija Pepic from Rozaje. About twenty days later, the judge of the Basic Court in Bijelo Polje, Dragan Mrdak, pronounced the verdict against these two brothers for committing the criminal offense of “illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials” in an endangering of security. Ilhan is sentenced to seven, and Hilmija is sentenced to four months in prison.
According to the police, it is suspected that the motive for this attack was a defamation of family Pepic member, Husnija, with whom Sadikovic had an interview at the end of last year in his show “Without Borders”. In the show, Sadikovic presented Pepic’s Museum, whose owner is Husnija, in an unusual and satirical manner. The show raised great public interest.
Sadikovic claims that it is still necessary to find out who ordered the attack in this case.