If what happened in America had happened in Montenegro, when an armed assailant opened fire and wounded an agent of the Secret Service at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in the Washington Hilton, today the mafia servants in the institutions would be screaming, demanding resignations and trying to make political capital out of every bullet, says Democrat MP Duško Stjepović.
In the American case, as he points out, the authorities treated the incident as a serious crime and a security attack, and the suspect was overpowered and arrested, and the nation was united.
“But in a serious state, where public officials do not work for the mafia but for the law, such things are not an occasion for political vulture, but for a decisive institutional reaction and unity,” he said.
That is why, points out Stjepović, the difference is clear.
“In states where everyone is united against crime, the incident is a subject of investigation, and in states with captive individuals it becomes a tool for manipulation and mob spin,” he said.
