Montenegrin reporter assaulted outside her home
Podgorica-based daily Vijesti’s reporter Olivera Lakić has been assaulted and injured in front of her apartment in Podgorica, Montenegro, on Wednesday evening.
Thursday, 08.03.2012.
09:41
Podgorica-based daily Vijesti’s reporter Olivera Lakic has been assaulted and injured in front of her apartment in Podgorica, Montenegro, on Wednesday evening. According to Vijesti, an unidentified man approached the journalist in front of her building and hit her several times on the head with his fists. Montenegrin reporter assaulted outside her home Lakic was attacked from behind while she was unlocking the front door. Last year she wrote a series of articles about production of cigarettes with fake labels in the northern Montenegrin town of Mojkovac and received numerous threats afterward. Her editor-in-chief Mihailo Jovovic reacted today with a statement to the media to say that the cowardly attack against a woman unable to defend herself represented "shame on Montenegro". Jovovic called on the authorities to either solve the case as soon as possible, or resign. "This attack on our journalist is another hard and dangerous blow dealt to normalcy and security of the citizens of Montenegro, where, it seems, people can no longer do their jobs honestly without being subjected to cowardly attacks on their doorstep," the Vijesti editor-in-chief said. He added that, considering that the Montenegrin authorities had failed to solve any of the previous attacks on journalists, organized crime should have no restraint in "continuing do to its job, since the state is not doing its job". "Another line was crossed in Montenegro last night. A woman was attacked from the dark and from behind her back, without being given the least opportunity to defend herself. The citizens are free to deduce for themselves where we have arrived," Jovovic said. The editor also noted that there were top state officials who saw attacks on journalists critical of the authorities and covering mafia-related stories as "attacks on enemies of their state, rather than attacks on the state". "As long as that is the case, I know that attackers will never be found," Jovovic warned. Olivera Lakic (file) Tanjug
Montenegrin reporter assaulted outside her home
Lakić was attacked from behind while she was unlocking the front door.Last year she wrote a series of articles about production of cigarettes with fake labels in the northern Montenegrin town of Mojkovac and received numerous threats afterward.
Her editor-in-chief Mihailo Jovović reacted today with a statement to the media to say that the cowardly attack against a woman unable to defend herself represented "shame on Montenegro".
Jovović called on the authorities to either solve the case as soon as possible, or resign.
"This attack on our journalist is another hard and dangerous blow dealt to normalcy and security of the citizens of Montenegro, where, it seems, people can no longer do their jobs honestly without being subjected to cowardly attacks on their doorstep," the Vijesti editor-in-chief said.
He added that, considering that the Montenegrin authorities had failed to solve any of the previous attacks on journalists, organized crime should have no restraint in "continuing do to its job, since the state is not doing its job".
"Another line was crossed in Montenegro last night. A woman was attacked from the dark and from behind her back, without being given the least opportunity to defend herself. The citizens are free to deduce for themselves where we have arrived," Jovović said.
The editor also noted that there were top state officials who saw attacks on journalists critical of the authorities and covering mafia-related stories as "attacks on enemies of their state, rather than attacks on the state".
"As long as that is the case, I know that attackers will never be found," Jovović warned.
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