Crime in Gradačac

In the new issue: "I was afraid for myself and the child"

17 August 2023, 08:37 Jovana Gligorijevic

They watched her die, and now they are judging her. They downloaded the video of her murder and distributed it further. She is on trial because she was going back to him, because she had a child with a troubled man who has a criminal past. They are judging her because "who knows what she provoked him with". It is her fault that she was alive, and it is her fault that she was killed

Her name was Nizama Hećimović. She was killed by the man with whom she had a child, an eight-month-old baby. Her name was Nizama, not Nevzeta, as the media in Serbia mistakenly reported. It was not even called "Instagram murder", as it is colloquially called, because her ex-partner directly broadcasted on this network how he was beaten and then killed with a firearm. Her name was Nizama. Her name means "order, regularity, order".

Nizama Hećimović was murdered on August 11 in front of 20.000 witnesses. So many people watched live as her ex-partner killed her with a gun. There are even more of them because the clip was removed from Instagram, published on social networks, shared in Viber groups. I didn't watch it. I only know about the video what I've seen others write. I know she was beaten. And I know that when asked by her killer why she reported him to the police, she said: "I was afraid for myself and the child." Those, it seems, were her last words...

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