Friday, April 14 - Really, this week before Easter was great and passionate, both religiously and secularly. It's just that the great deeds were not done by Jesus Christ, but by Vladimir Novović, and the number of vigils was increased not among the priests but among the policemen.
The summary of Maundy Thursday is more than impressive, I only note the headlines:
- A major cut in the top of the police force due to suspicion of inadmissible connections with a criminal clan.
- The president of the largest tourist city is suspected of creating a criminal organization and drug smuggling, and then arrested.
- Double murder solved, four suspected accomplices ended up in custody, the handcuffs await at least three more.
Okay, so... what's the problem now?
Well, in the fact that during that big prosecutor-police action, the chief special prosecutor and the head of the Special Police Department were at the - hearing.
That politicians would put two high-ranking professionals in such a situation that they would ask them for permission to do their work - well, no normal person could have hoped for such a surprise. I quote:
- Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović asked the President of the Committee for Security and Defense to allow them to interrupt the session for him and the head of the Special Police Department, Predrag Šuković, since they are being arrested in two SDT cases.
That the party's performances in the parliament exceeded all measures, it was clear even during the premiere and rerun "arrest" of Prime Minister Dritan Abazović and Minister Filip Adžić.
Their pursuit, despite everything, can be justified by the fact that they are both politicians.
Vladimir Novović is a prosecutor and Predrag Šuković is a policeman, so there is no justification for turning investigators into investigated subjects!
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Saturday, April 15 - There is no justification, neither political nor human, for the evaluations of the Budva committee of the Democratic Party of Socialists regarding the arrest of the mayor of the municipality, Milo Božović.
- The reputation of Budva as a central tourist city in Montenegro has been drastically damaged, and it is written about exclusively in black chronicles these days - said the party whose founder, ideologist and vice-president was not only suspected and accused, but also legally convicted.
And for much more serious crimes, with much more drastic consequences, not only for Budva but for the whole of Montenegro.
The DPS did not then "indicate arrogance and misconduct", nor did it try to "imagine how serious the criminal charges relating to the first man of the municipality can be".
While that party was in power in both Budva and Montenegro, no one in it thought to question the legitimacy of the local government, not even because of the verdict, let alone suspicion.
Nor to ask "in what way was the pre-election process conducted and what means were used for the purpose of securing the support of the citizens".
At the time, the DPS was not worried about "what kind of label the city would receive" and how much the arrest of the first man in the municipality and the second in the state would be "devastating for Budva tourism and its long-cherished image as the pearl of the Mediterranean".
The only concern that the local people from Depees had at that time was that no one from the headquarters would see them at the funeral of Marović's mother...
And it's not... Neither one nor the other...
There are ten exceptions...
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Sunday, April 16 - Peer violence in Montenegro is not an exception for a long time, but threatens to become a regular practice.
No wonder, if I followed the key laws correctly, that violence is not even a criminal offense.
Cuts on the head, bruises on the face, fracture of the cheek, jaw and mesial bone - this is the medical report on the visit of two boys from Sarajevo to Montenegro, which - as one of them said - they love.
How they would get by if they didn't like her, I can't even imagine.
The mother of that young athlete, Arduan Pribinj, tried to prevent the medical findings from gaining a political dimension.
- I believe that it is exclusively about juvenile delinquency and that the case has no other background - she said, giving priority to the feeling of professional journalistic responsibility for the public word and not to intimate maternal feelings.
I am grateful to her for that, but I trust her son more.
- We should not communicate like this... to insult each other on a national basis... we should all be raja - said the beaten Harun.
You should, but you don't know us, child, I would tell him that I could.
It's been that way since April 1992...
Because neither Montenegro as a country, nor any of its citizens individually, has ever been held accountable for what they did to Sarajevo and then to all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Well, that's why Harun got cuts and bruises, that's why his donkey's face was disfigured, I would explain to both of them if I had the chance.
And I really don't care that I'm raising inter-ethnic and inter-state tensions like that, because it's been three decades and I'm ashamed of my people and my country.
But not everyone can be guilty of what only some do? I can, I can, and how, silence about violence is the same as condoning it.
Especially when it comes to parents who inherited their hatred from the nineties to their children.
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Monday, April 17 - I knew exactly what the echoes and reactions would be after the beating of the two boys... Parties, the civil sector, educators, activists on the networks, no one did not speak out...
All as one, the same words - thugs must not go unpunished, the punishments are light, urgently change the laws...
As if it has not been clear for a long time that one-off physical violence is preceded by long-term verbal violence.
Balija, Turk, Shiptar, Chetnik, Komita... that hate speech is certainly not taught in kindergarten, nor is it heard for the first time in the school yard...
And it's not all about the street and social networks either, rather it will be about the parents...
And first of all those who don't look like Arduana Pribinje at all... And then others who think like her, they just don't understand yet that it's high time to say it publicly...
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Tuesday, April 18 - The experience of Arduana Pribinja was best understood and explained by Darko Saveljić. The only difference is that his son was attacked on his home turf, but not to repeat yesterday's fb post:
"In the fight against violence against my son and his friends, I will not be swayed by the facts:
- That one of the bullies was born in 2007, that he is already tattooed and that he drives a motorcycle. And that his father is one of the chief state inspectors.
- That the mother of one of the actors in the story is a "reputable lawyer".
- That the principal of the school, even seven days after the violence, did not call to ask how her children were, but pretended to be dead.
- That the second day passes after the announcement by the police that the decision of the prosecutor's office is awaited, and we still don't know about the decision...
You will not stop me! And I'm not going to spare anyone in this story!
The fight against all types of violence needs a broad front. If we don't do something, life in this beautiful country can turn into hell overnight. Maybe just to you who are reading this. Unprovoked."
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Wednesday, April 19 - If it was unprovoked, it could not be said that the newly elected President of Montenegro hesitated to hold the inauguration ceremony in Cetinje.
True, no one has yet sent the threat that the ceremony will be prevented, but Jakov Milatović has the right to believe more in the truth he witnessed on March 10.
Then a group of citizens, including one suspected of murder, tried to violently prevent his presentation as a presidential candidate.
The pessimistic scenario for May 21 implies a replay, in a more numerous and violent version than the one in 2021.
Optimistically, it contains three variants:
- That September 5th be repeated partially, without violence and only in the form of helicopters, special forces and bulletproof vests, which is possible.
- That there should be no protests at all, which is not realistic.
- If Jakov Milatović came to the Government House on foot, surrounded by all the MPs, all the ministers and all the councilors, which would be ideal...
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Thursday, April 20 - The Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate cannot guarantee that there will be no expression of dissatisfaction in Cetinje, but they guarantee the newly elected president that he can be inaugurated in the capital - the Minister of the Interior said today.
We saw what those guarantees look like on the ground when some previous presidents were secured by hundreds and hundreds of policemen, but it's better that way than not at all...
Because Jakov Milatović has the right not to trust Filip Adžić.
But if he doesn't trust the police minister of the country he heads - well, no president has that right!
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