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Montenegrin journalist shot and wounded in Podgorica

(B2) Vijesti journalist Olivera Lakić was shot and injured at her home on Tuesday (8 May) in Podgorica. An attack which once again targets (as in Malta or Slovakia), journalists investigating organized crime.

An ambush

A man shot him in the right leg, while two other men fled, according to the editor of Vijesti. She was taken to hospital and remains in stable condition. An attack condemned by the European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ / FIJ) which support the Union of Journalists of Montenegro (SMCG).

An investigative journalist on the mafias

Olivera Lakić works as an investigative journalist for the daily Vijesti. She is known for her investigations into crime and corruption in Montenegro. According to media reports, she wrote about alleged illegal businesses linked to senior state officials and their families, as well as Montenegro's long-ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, accused of corruption and crime.

A certain impunity in the air in Montenegro

This brutal attack is the second of its kind. Six years ago, Lakić was punched several times in the head after writing about allegations of illegal dealings involving a tobacco factory. The author was sentenced to prison and Olivera Lakić was under police protection for some time. But according to the Union of Journalists of Montenegro, the Montenegrin authorities did not investigate who ordered the threats and attacks against her, nor did they follow up on Lakić's allegations of cigarette smuggling.

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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