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Moamer Kasumović
Bosnian actor and producer (born 1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moamer Kasumović (Cyrillic: Моамер Касумовић; born 12 December 1981) is a Bosnian actor and producer born in Montenegro. He gained recognition for portraying the role of Damir Fazlinović in the sitcom Lud, zbunjen, normalan from 2007 to 2021.[1]
Kasumović's first television role was in Summer in the Golden Valley in 2003. He has also produced the short film Non-Stop Plavi and feature films Hiljadarka and The Life of Flowers.
Kasumović was sentenced to one year in prison for the criminal offense of fornication against a minor committed in 2021; the verdict was delivered with an option of paying a fixed monetary sum in exchange for avoiding prison.[2]
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On September 16, 2024, at the Sarajevo National Theatre as part of Sarajevo Fest, during a Q&A session following the staging of a National Theatre in Belgrade play, Tiho, tiše, whose plot is focused on peer violence, an underage male in the crowd stated, as part of asking a question, that in 2021 when he was 14 years old, he had been sexually abused by a "well known actor".[3] Prompted by others in the crowd as to the abuser's identity, the underage male revealed it was Kasumović, before further stating that the case was legally tried and that Kasumović was convicted for the crime in a court ruling.[4]
Attempting to confirm the underage male's claims, Raport.ba web portal submitted a request to the Sarajevo Municipal Court, reportedly getting a response that such information couldn't be publicly disclosed as per a provision within the criminal code in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4] The portal then tried the Sarajevo Canton Court, reportedly getting the same response.[4] Eventually, by September 19, 2024, the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor's Office, confirmed to the portal that an indictment had been issued against Kasumović for the criminal offence of "sexual intercourse against a minor" (bludne radnje, obljuba) for which he had been sentenced in 2021 to one year in prison, with an option of avoiding incarceration by paying a fixed sum of KM36,500 (~€18,600).[4] Following the conclusion of the appeals process, in November 2023, he took the payment option and thus avoided prison time.[4][5] The option of making a monetary payment in lieu of prison time is reportedly available to all convicted criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced to up to one year.[5]
Once reported on in the Sarajevo-based media, the case became major news in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to a lesser extent in Montenegro where Kasumović had reportedly returned to and began spending most of his time following his initial 2021 conviction in Sarajevo.[6][7] In response to revelations about Kasumović, Federalna televizija announced the decision of removing reruns of Lud, zbunjen, normalan, actor's best known work, from the network's broadcast schedule.[8] His co-star in the series Senad Bašić expressed shock, adding that "[the cast and crew] had no idea about Kasumović's proclivities, which he obviously hid very well".[9] Kasumović's only reaction to his sex offender conviction becoming public knowledge took place via his Facebook page where, in October 2024, he shared a web link to an op-ed by his Montenegrin legal representative Mihailo Volkov, published in the Podgorica-based Pobjeda daily, arguing that Kasumović's verdict in Sarajevo should have been overturned due to a "number of procedural issues".[10][11]
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