Marinika Tepic from Djilas asked to “evict” the journalist who wrote about her

Novak Filipović and Marinika Tepić, Photo: Private archive

Filipovic’s arrest was announced at a press conference on March 11 by Biljana Popovic Ivkovic, State Secretary at the Serbian Interior Ministry, who identified him as a suspected member. a criminal group of four members in which 1.4 kilograms of drugs and ammunition were found.

Popovic Ivkovic then said it was Filipovic “a friend of the vice-president of the Freedom and Justice Party, Marinika Tepic, otherwise, owner of a sports club and gym in Pancevo.” On that occasion, he showed photos of Filipović with Marinika Tepić and asked the public to respond “since when he met Filipović from the date of Pancevo, if he received funds from the budget in the period from 2013 to 2016, depending on his long-term friendship, while Tepic was provincial secretary of sports and youth. “

By the way, it is still known about Filipović that he is the owner of the bodybuilding club in Pancevo, where he is known as a flyover who changed the jerseys of various parts, conditionally speaking of civic orientation. After the arrest, he spent 30 days in detention, and previously gave a statement to the police in which he states that Marinika Tepic asked him to promise to “evict” journalist Milakov from Pancevo.

In the recorded statement, Filipović claims that Marinika Tepić “did not tolerate” Milakov and that she can say that “she even hated him for the texts he wrote about her.”

– Those texts did not suit him. At one point I received a message to promise him something. I asked what. She said to evict him from Pancevo. I said at the time: I don’t know, okay … I thought about it and saved the message just in case something happened to that man, just so he could be covered or something. How do I know what might come to someone’s mind? If I don’t, maybe someone else would. If he asked me to be a criminal or to get people out of the city, I would not, Filipović said, noting that “the context of that sentence to evict someone from the city was not clear to him.”

Filipović also submitted photos of the correspondence in question with a person named Marinika to the police.

In the rest of his testimony, Filipovic attempted to take Marinika Tepic into a broader political context and said “to my former associates not to leave friends, not to betray and that’s it, especially not someone who has been there for ten years, doing everything and anything”.

Miroslav Milakov, whose “expulsion” Marinika Tepic allegedly wanted is a controversial figure in local journalistic circles. He was editor in chief of RTV Pancevo until November last year, when he was fired because he called Pancevo journalist Nenad Zivkovic. “false journalist, violent promoter, obsessive materialist, spy student” …

Due to the insults against Zivkovic, the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) issued three warning measures to Radio-Television Pancevo. In the end, Tatjana Ćuk, the legal representative of RTV Pancevo, admitted at the Council session that the injury was already done and said that Milakov was replaced, and that the contributions were “his personal act”. RTV Pancevo, incidentally, has long been criticized by NUNS and NDNV for reporting “under the control of SNS.”

Milakov says for “Blic” that he is horrified by everything Filipović said.

– I am concerned because I have two young children, but I am not surprised by the threats and I do not understand them personally as an attack on me, but on RTV Pancevo, which revealed many scandals of Marinika Tepic – says Milakov

Milakov added that Marinika Tepic never personally threatened him.

“Blic” attempted to obtain a comment on these allegations from Marinika Tepic, but she did not respond to calls and messages until the text was published.