Tobacco Traffickers Are a Danger to Journalists and Everyone Else

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From: B92.net

Montenegrin reporter investigating cigarette smuggling shot

Podgorica daily Vijesti journalist Olivera Lakic was wounded on Tuesday evening in a shooting accident.

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“You can kill us all”

The Vijesti newspaper announced that Lakic was writing about cigarette smuggling during the past several months – a topic she had also covered in the past.

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“You can kill us all, (but) somebody will some day be held responsible for this, once Vesna Medenica is not president of the Supreme Court, Ivica Stankovic is not Supreme State Prosecutor, Enis Bakovic is not chief of police and Mevludin Nuhodzic is not police minister. Then some of all this will be uncovered,” Ivanovic said.

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