Woman from Cetinje to be prosecuted for endangering security over morbid threats

Endangering security is the criminal offence for which Z. D., a woman from Cetinje who has not lived in the Royal Capital for years, will be held accountable. Via the social network Facebook, she directed horrific threats at Cetinje resident Milo Ivanišević and, as it later emerged, had continuously threatened other citizens of this city as well.

- The state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica has been informed of the incident and has ordered officers of the Police Directorate to file criminal charges against Z. D. for the criminal offence of endangering security - the Prosecutor’s Office stated briefly this morning.

As previously reported, Z. D. is a native of Cetinje, an architect by profession, educated partly abroad, close to the Serbian Orthodox Church, and engaged in Podgorica on a project involving the construction of a religious and educational facility.

In morbid voice messages sent to Ivanišević on 9 January, she threatened, among other things: „Cetinje residents, days of misery are coming for you“, „...I have saved some human lives and with appetite I can take one, because I trained...“, „...fortunately there aren’t many of you, and there will be even fewer“, „hang your flags, hang them, you gang, and I’ll stuff them all into your mouths and suffocate you with them“, „you’re driven by some communist spite, you little mutt“, „and now pass this around the cafés in Cetinje - someone will recognize me, so come to my house, I’ll unlock the door, let you in, and there’s no way out, you won’t leave alive“.

Ivanišević filed a report with the police that same evening and also informed the Centre for Civic Rights about the incident.

- I would like to stress that I feel threatened and that I fear something like a new Medovina or a new 1 January 2025 could happen - Ivanišević told the police.

Citizens quickly identified Z. D., which the Centre for Civic Rights reported to the Cetinje prosecutor’s office, and the police issued a local wanted notice for her. She was questioned on Saturday, 17 January.

Using her Facebook profile „Ing Arh Zed Ratislavljevna“, Z. D. threatened Ivanišević as well as many other women and men from Cetinje.

Two to three days after Ivanišević filed the criminal complaint with the police, she deleted almost all posts and photographs from her Facebook account.

As previously reported, one of the posts she left behind, dating back to 2023, reads: „Yes, I am. And it’s excellent. The Lord is my banner. Both parents have passed away in God, if I were to die physically now, I have completed my mission. I have crossed out my DPS relatives, all of them. And the hypocrites as well. A black sheep with white hair…“.

On 10 January, the Centre for Civic Rights stated that „in a city that has twice, in a short period of time, been shrouded in black by mass crimes in which 23 of our fellow citizens were killed, including four children, such threats cannot, must not, and will not be viewed as 'isolated incidents' or 'personal conflicts'“.

- Particularly alarming is the fact that both massacres were committed by individuals who, according to publicly available information, were ideologically, value-wise, and factually close to the Serbian Orthodox Church - an institution that in Montenegro has long ceased to function as a religious community and instead operates as a political, hegemonistic and deeply destructive factor - the Center warned then.