What a virtual congress of admiration it was, Milo Đukanović has not received so much support since he brought the country to his beloved people.
- To my credit, that's how a real President works, children should live with a father who loves them and not with a mother who doesn't - on the eve of Fighter's Day, the brigade's supporters did not hide their enthusiasm for the humanity of their leader...
- Good for Đukanović, I never voted for him, I went to all the protests, but now I support him - the army of opponents of Đukanović's politics was not far behind...
It's been a long time since one lie united Montenegro like this, despite the fact that the full truth was known already a day after the arrest. Thanks first to non-governmental organizations that deal with domestic violence, and then to the judiciary, which mostly fails to deal with abusers.
The arrest, of course, did not occur because the father was breaking the law by gathering wood to feed the children. But because he ruined his own children's childhood, forbidding them to see their own mother.
Fifteen days passed from the arrest to the pardon. In a normal country, it would be enough for an institution called the President, out of all other institutions, whatever they may be, to learn all the facts and make a normal decision.
Unfortunately, Montenegro has not been normal for a long time. And how much its President is interested in facts is best shown by the decision to grant state mercy to a person who has repeatedly violated the laws of that country to the detriment of his own children.
I leave the assessment of the normality of the crowd that supported such a decision to the competent psychiatric clinics.
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It all started on June 17, with a video on social networks. The spread of which the state has not stopped, even though domestic and international legislation obliges it to do so.
Violation of all legal and moral principles continued that same afternoon and the next day. It continues, with the spread of fake news and hate speech that the state is still not trying to stop.
Mother's bitch, was one of the first comments with double-digit support (84). Who cares about that, the state only reacts when a similar word is addressed to an official. Does anyone else remember that unlucky guy from Facebook who drank his punishment before twenty friends saw the post...
Bruka from the mother, you say that the neighbors threatened the children's privacy and you are endangering them, the delight of 189 alleged defenders of children's rights was not hidden.
She didn't take care of children for years, 100 like-minded people knew for sure. Despite the fact that the competent court announced in less than 24 hours. And he explained in detail how it was the father who for years forbade the mother to even see her children, let alone take care of them.
Will this German mother answer, she should be punished - as many as 501 people would prosecute an innocent woman.
The court's announcement is in vain, the announcements of non-governmental activists who, both before and after that, presented evidence that she was also a victim of violence...
Thousands of people persistently continued to defend that "beautiful father who was arrested by ten policemen for gathering wood to feed his children"...
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It is clear to everyone that he did not collect wood. That we all picked the fruit because the public's right to know turned into an obligation to spread lies and hatred is not clear only to the state government.
It's not since yesterday, nor since August 30, we have spent thirty years in a system based on lies, hatred, pranks, fraud... But that cannot serve as a justification for the new government to fight against the system created by the former regime with rare personal example of ruling politicians and even rarer appeals.
How to get hatred out of public speech is much more important than whose party cadres will enter the government.
The obvious lessons should first be held by those parties whose prominent activists made an extraordinary contribution to the public lynching of a mother.
Before that lynching from virtual reality is transferred to the street...
It should, but I know it won't. It is easier to keep the voters together with lies and hatred than with the truth that would catch the party leadership in a lie.
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And the truth is that the father, whose evil fate sheds tears, was sentenced to prison after "intense refusal to hand over the minor children to the mother".
And warned for years that if he doesn't do it kindly and for the benefit of his children, he will have to hand them over - by force of law.
The court also found that the children "only in the presence of their father intensively refused to go to their mother".
As soon as the power of the state threatened him and sentenced him to 15 days in prison for the first time, the father agreed to cooperate. And the children suddenly stopped refusing to go to their mother and "spent quality and peaceful time" with her.
When everyone saw that both the daughter and the son were happy to go to her, he continued with his "previous behavior, which caused resentment and worrying behavior among the children."
The right to see their mother twice a week didn't help either. Nor was the law that states that "until the age of 15, children cannot independently decide whether to have contact with a parent with whom they do not live" useful.
The father still did not want to understand that "he is obliged to preserve the feeling of acceptance and belonging to the other parent", and that "there must be no alienation of the children from the parent with whom they do not live".
This dictionary of the court is curt, but not so much that it cannot be seen why the procedure for changing the decision on entrusting the children to the father is ongoing...
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All this and many other details from the extensive announcement were known the day after the broadcast of the video that harmed children the most. And it will only cause them trauma, when their peers take action...
Those who in any way participated in the public referendum for the father and against the mother were obliged to at least read the evaluations of the court, before accepting the verdict of the criminal council of social networks. The real blame, however, belongs to state institutions.
The line ministry promised that it would demand the determination of its own responsibility and that of all others. Not yet determined.
The Center for Social Work initiated a procedure to review the behavior of all participants in the event. It's not finished yet.
The mother filed criminal charges against several persons who recorded and shared a video that will not allow children to forget June 17, 2020 for the rest of their lives. We still don't know what happened to those applications.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs concluded that it acted legally in this case. It has not yet been determined whether it is fair.
In one case, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was right: "the detained father of the children did not continuously act in accordance with the decision allowing the mother to maintain personal contact with the children at her address without hindrance".
And then, for inexplicable reasons, he appealed to the competent authorities "to make use of all legal possibilities and to enable the children's release" - just such a father...
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That "competent authority" is called - the President. The "legal option" available to him is - pardon.
It is not the first time that cohabitation is made fun of. However, it is the first time that the victims of this state insolence are children.
Unfortunately, not the last...
P.S. It is not the last chance, but it is high time that the party leaders - in Vidovdan's case (pro-)Serbian ones - take responsibility for the consequences of their own statements. The immunity that protects them from indictments for public speaking does not apply to their followers even in Montenegro, let alone in neighboring countries. In each of the seven states of the former SFRY, denying their existence is a criminal offense. If you don't believe it, let him try to shout at the rally in Belgrade just once that Serbia is a Croatian country. Or Albanian, it was said far away...
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