Judge

The judge, in the role of a witness, actually - explained everything. Certainly, and more than he thought.

This bizarre situation - in which the judge explains how he is corrupt - would be unimaginable to many. Namely, we tend to believe that judges are people of a "special breed", as if they come from somewhere else, as if they are not shaped by the local political and cultural milieu. There is no need to idealize, of course, there were all kinds of judges here, but this is a novelty even by Montenegrin standards of nastiness. The very fact that such a statement is possible explains the dimensions of our sinking.

Current insights into the moral habits of some Montenegrin judges and champions of the judiciary clearly explain how and why things like the processes we have seen in the past ten years could have happened. Probably only with such moral profiles in the "right" places can you arrest and harass honorable people, while criminals walk freely and, one step further, diligently plot with the police. And remember the enthusiastic media support for such judges and such processes. It came "in the package", as a bonus addition. The judge made the arrest, and the newspaper vultures went "free": after their articles, an ordinary reader could wonder why these people are not killed like dogs, but also tried... But, let's face it, everything is revealed in one way or another, indicates in the right dimensions. It's healing, always.

In short - the judge from Herceg Novi best explains the way in which the malignant effect is Vesne Medenica destroyed the Montenegrin judiciary, turned it into a caricature and rag. However, the most sleazy of all is his explanation. It is even visible that the "judge" thinks that his explanation is perfectly fine, that such a reason is "normal". That's why we're in this mess.

Listen to this: “At that moment I found myself in a very thankless position. (It is, of course, the most terrible thing that can happen to a person, the judge believes.) If I had refused, I would have resented her, I realized that she could very easily create huge problems for me in the judiciary (...) And I made that decision, considering that at that moment, with the simplest solution (as if the judges are where they are to seek simplicity, not justice), to remove that case from the office, and most importantly (hear what is most important) to remove it from the agenda." And he did all this, as he explains - not to "taint his career". Spectacle.

After this, it is clear why the judicial function is necessary and only meaningful as an independent one. And why such a thing is still not possible in our country. The expectations of Power are on the other side... Under Vesna's shadow, any personal independence was - the attitude of the enemy. In any case - we got a clear picture of how a Montenegrin judge ruled. And, apparently, he was not the only one who adhered to Vesna's justice.

In the twilight of the SFRY, an affair had a huge media impact, and a journalist at the time Vuk Draskovic he wrote the novel "Judge" inspired by that affair. The action takes place in socialist Bosnia, which was the most rigid part of the country at the time. In short, the tapes reached the court: a woman recorded a man in a light evening conversation, with wine and seduction, who was very explicitly critical of Titus and comrades. (With the wine and hopes running through his head, he probably would Mother Teresa accused of insensitivity.) The lady took the recording to where it should go, and the "people's government" thought that everything was clear. The case was assigned to a young judge (later a famous lawyer and legal thinker Ilija Radulović), who refuses to include the tapes as evidence. He considered that such evidence was not obtained in a moral way and that as such it is unusable. He even did something unique until then: he called a philosophy professor into the courtroom as an ethics expert.

Imagine if someone brought an ethics expert into this courtroom of ours? What would we hear...