Montenegrin Editor's 2004 Murder Still Unsolved

Jovanović, editor-in-chief and owner of the daily Dan and well known for his critical reporting, was shot dead leaving his office in Podgorica on 27 May 2004. Prior to his death, Jovanović received numerous death threats.

Damir Mandić was jailed for 18 years in 2012 as an accomplice to the crime, but remains the only perpetrator to be convicted. The masterminds behind the murder are still at large.

The only step up in a decade-long investigation is the announcement by the state prosecutor that the investigation has been reopened and that several people have been interrogated.

In February, prosecutors in Podgorica relaunched a probe into the unsolved murder. It resumed with the questioning of several top policemen, including the former head of the Podgorica force, Milan Vijanovic, and senior officers Milan Tomic and Tihomir Gacevic.

The prosecution said it will request additional information from former Interior Minister Andrija Jovicevic, investigating judge Miroslav Basovic and Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Dusko Markovic, who was intelligence chief in 2004.

On Monday, state prosecutor Veselin Vuckovic said the prosecution had checked every detail of the investigation into the murder.

"The prosecution will not stop there, it will go all the way until the case murder is fully solved and all of the participants in the crime are identified," Vuckovic told Dan.

The head of a government probe into attacks on journalists, Nikola Markovic, on Monday accused the authorities of "unwillingness or incompetence" in resolving the death of the only journalist to be murdered in Montenegro.

"The fact that even a decade on from this crime we do not know either who was behind the murder, or the...