The Mayor of Sarajevo Benjamina Karić recently visited the severely beaten worker Enisa Klepo and called on other citizens to support her.
She recalled that this 28-year-old woman from Jablanica was beaten after she requested payment of her salary.
“Enisa Klepo is our child. A child of Jablanica, a child of Sarajevo, a child of honorable parents and every honest person in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is 28 years old, she graduated from the Faculty of Law. She worked at the reception of the hotel ‘Jablanica’, for a salary of 700 BAM. When should have been paid for her work, she was brutally beaten by the owner of the hotel,” she pointed out.
Karić said that Enisa is a heroine and that she encouraged other women.
“Despite her injuries, she found the strength to call her parents and the police. With her courage, she helped other women who suffer any kind of violence to raise their voices,” she stated.
She believes that it is up to citizens to support Enisa and give her the opportunity to work in her profession.
“Enisa and many of her peers deserve it. The criminal who beat her does not deserve a single word of space. I am asking and appealing to the competent authorities to prosecute him. As I return to Sarajevo, I think of the words of Enisa’s father who says: ‘We took care, raised, educated the child. They taught her to work honorably and honestly… so that someone would mistreat her and beat her.’
