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But that closeness between Power and Crime, which crystallized so naturally in previous decades, is something that today's Montenegrin society needs to deal with. Because, it is certain that a change of government does not necessarily mean a change in the mechanisms of governance

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Photo: Boris Pejović
Photo: Boris Pejović
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

In Montenegro, it has long been difficult to distinguish between police officers and criminals. Even sometimes, if not more politely, then more lucidly, criminals act than "guardians of the law". I don't believe in the myth about their honor (as the former crown jewels of the Montenegro judiciary), but the fact that they are often more socially sensitive and even more educated than local police officers is more or less expected. Here, lucidity or education was never required for that type of service (guardian of law and order), only loyalty. Loyalty to the point of stupidity - that is the most valued.

All that half-world - including corrupt police officers, not only corrupt but those who are partners with the underworld, but also this "specialist" Knežević who was preparing to "cleanse" Cetinje, created all of them and brought order to the stage of our lives in which the most important thing was the safety of the Boss. And they all together were his kerbers. Willing, ready, enthusiastic…

Such a team on stage is the price of a choice - the rulers from DPS always chose to "buy" people (because it seemed easier and more natural to them) than to educate them. That is why, in the end, all these years, they have been catastrophically bad representatives of the indisputable value system.

Millions in accounts again? It seems that some of the XNUMXs have only come out of the calendar, the XNUMXs have not and will never come out of them.

A manner that was once justified by sanctions - now it works somewhat differently. Police officers with fifty million in their accounts? Are you kidding me? No, it's far from a joke, actually.

Whose money is it? Why are they guarded by civil servants? If they belong to the state, on what basis? If they belong to this or that criminal organization, why are they guarded by policemen on private accounts?

Those whose accounts had money in the nineties, at the time of sanctions, later, quite naturally, thought that they were better and more important than others. Are these current guardians of (the state's? Or whose?) treasure intending to charge for their services in a similar way. Then Montenegro is in a bigger problem than even the most concerned think.

The situation is almost such that you can only expect salvation from heaven. And, well, no matter how reluctant an atheist admits it, it literally happened...

Thanks to the SKY application, the European public has gained an insight into the world of crime that cannot be compared to any similar success of the past.

This is a documentary film, actually thousands of documentaries simultaneously, in real time: a detail with a picture from the special prosecutor, then a self-portrait with a weapon, a group portrait with monstrous killers... Neat reporting of every detail, of every traffic patrol, the head of the clan as if he were a member of the police college. Ritual mutual gifting, as noted by Europol, of "illegal" weapons - this is a clear debt to the mentality.

And, unbeatable Katnic, who (even as a pensioner) continues to delight the public. The justification works as part of the same naive operetta: Lazovic did all that for the needs of the service... How could he not - James Bond from our alley. Hadn't the younger Lazović pretended to be someone else? Or it's exactly who he is and where the recommendation for this closeness was. But his enthusiasm is undeniable. Which, in the end, looks more like an extremely honest attitude than professional expertise.

But that closeness between Power and Crime, which crystallized so naturally in previous decades, is something that today's Montenegrin society needs to deal with. Because, it is certain that a change of government does not necessarily mean a change in the mechanisms of governance.

When such policemen are impossible - then this will be a society on the way to normality.

The first step towards this is to get the full and true picture. Obviously, all these stories - Od Pelvis to Lazović - only part of the picture of a crazy era. There must be more striking characters and interesting plots - and the only way to close such an era is to find out and tell all our (Petparak) stories.

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