May 8, 2018

8/5/ 2018 – MONTENEGRO: OLIVERA LAKIC

Vienna, 8 May 2018

The Vienna South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is shoked to learn that journalist Olivera Lakic was shot in the leg in front of the building where she lives in Podgorica, Montenegro. She is now in a hospital and according to doctors her life is not in danger.

As SEEMO was informed many of the stories she wrote about crime have not been investigated by the police.

This was not the first time Lakic was attacked. She was assaulted at the same place several years ago after receiving threats following her investigative reports. On 1 April a bomb exploded near the house of Lakić’s Vijesti colleague, Saed Sadikovic, in Bijelo Polje