This kind of blasphemy has never happened since October 2016, when the ill-fated special prosecutor tried to prove that Montenegro should have been shrouded in black...
- I invest my face and my honor in this story - Milivoje Katnić said then.
And in that tragicomic story, a dozen Serbs from Belgrade are supposed to kill the Serbs from Podgorica as soon as they come to celebrate the election victory - the Serbian bloc.
That Prime Minister Milo Đukanović be captured as soon as he is noticed among the supporters of the Democratic Front.
That "a criminal group from Danilovgrad known to the SDT" which - did not even exist - was complicit in the bloodshed that history does not remember.
That the weapon, as a key piece of evidence for the prosecution, be thrown into the lake by order of the prosecutor.
That the terrorists had the "most modern means of communication", but failed to communicate because they forgot to - pay for roaming...
Thirteen defendants were sentenced in the High Court to - 67,5 years in prison for such an attack on the state.
Vesna Medenica was at the head of the state judiciary.
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The higher court is now judging Vesna Medenica...
The indictment mainly charges her with participation in organized crime and abuse of official position.
Accusations for the failure of the judiciary, which turned Montenegro into a state of force and injustice, have been completely relieved.
That's why, despite the ingloriously ended third term, she can act as if she came to the TV studio as the supreme judge at the beginning of the fourth term, and not as a suspect for serious crimes...
And to judge others for alleged political persecutions, without an iota of remorse for those who were actually persecuted by her judiciary.
And that, after all, regarding the complaint about the housing issue that was resolved three times, she thinks that it belongs to her...
Why? Justice for Bukovica? Morinj? Deportation? Kaluđerski Laz?...
And for Telekom, Avala, Tinmenka, Coup d'état, Snima, Koverta...
Or for the murder of Duško Jovanović, the attempted murder of Olivera Lakić and the beating of her colleagues from Vijesti...
But she never interfered in the work of her colleagues?
Possibly, that message from Sky "Fleet!" it's really more like a - command...
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Unfortunately, there is no command responsibility in the judiciary. And when and what judgment will be passed for what Vesna Medenica is accused of, it is difficult to estimate.
Not so much because of unfinished hearings, but because of well-founded doubts about the independence of the judges to whom the former boss - as these family friends from Sky write - once completed something...
Whatever it is, it cannot be more difficult than the verdict she pronounced on herself in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers in Nachisto...
It's true that TV appearances have never been easy for the supreme Montenegrin judge, but that with every answer she diminishes her already minimal chances for a sliver of audience sympathy - well, that didn't work out for that unmentionable witness who collaborated in the above-mentioned coup d'état...
Even as he is, Saša Sinđelić managed to arouse empathy in at least part of the audience with the story of sleepless nights due to separation from children...
Vesna Medenica, of all the details from her family life, again told exactly the one that is not for the public story - that after her husband's death, she was left with debts...
If she hadn't, I wouldn't be talking about the details of her guest appearance at Petar Komnenic's...
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And if by any chance I had been the host, that guest appearance would have ended before the tenth minute.
- Why in 17 years, when you were at the peak of power, did you not accept the offer to talk openly, but only now when you are in trouble?
- I did not receive any official invitation, except through the show, that the door was open to me.
- That is not true, because I was once in your office and we were negotiating a conversation, and for a time your secretary even received a call from me every morning.
- Maybe I forgot that.
So much for truthfulness, which I might pass over. Over the insolence that followed I certainly wouldn't.
And the first one was a little roundabout:
- Somehow, your performance with the guests caused a certain hatred for me, because I somehow noticed in your performance - maybe it's your nature - a kind of hatred.
The second was just like the sole, that his activism was fueled by hatred.
- I always ran away from people whose activism is promoted by hatred.
For the third - "Maybe it's your nature?!" - for seven days now I can't find suitable words...
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The miracle is that appropriateness, that the head does not end up in a bag, there is no more effective prevention than it...
When Vesna Medenica was placed in custody in April of last year, Milo Đukanović thought it appropriate to first emphasize his trust in the prosecutor's office, which ordered her arrest, and then in the judiciary, which she headed.
- I'm not commenting. Why, not because I'm running away, let's let the government authorities do their job. We must avoid the arrogance of institutions and enable the right to defense. We must avoid handicapping people in advance in their defense. If we talk so much about the rule of law, we have to let the institutions do the work. I don't have any information on that topic. Let's allow the authorities to do their job, I give my trust to the prosecutor's office and the judiciary!
Three months later, when Veselin Vukotić and the management of Plantaž ended up in custody, Đukanović was not satisfied:
- I am the one who gives myself the right to say from this position that the practice that it is necessary to determine detention for respectable people cannot continue. Is it necessary to make spectacular arrests, is it necessary to handcuff the rector of the University to the remand prison, or can it be done in a more civilized manner?
He balanced it out a bit below:
- However, I think that a title does not guarantee anyone that they cannot break the law. Anyone who did that should be on the dock and answer!
At the end of the TV appearance, he lashed out at the prosecution:
- Sensational arrests make people angry, respectable citizens are kept in detention for several months, even years. Similar things have happened in the past, but some citizens have collected millions of dollars from the state because of this - while the prosecutors are still in office.
But that was not the end of the open defense of the leader of Plantaž and his friend:
- I know the detainees, I am friends with some of them, and it will take a lot of arguments to believe that they broke the law and acted against the interests of the company.
He didn't say a word about Vesna Medenica's reputation, gossip and innocence.
And who was she talking about when reminding how she signed secret surveillance measures for thirteen years?
- It will be interesting one day to say something from what I saw. When that time will come is a matter of my decision - said Medenica.
Of course, it is easy to read among those "caught up in the measures of secret surveillance" who is "now burning and burning with this judiciary"...
Who burned and set fire to this country - we'll just read...
PS The reading of the verdict for the murder of pregnant Zumrita Nerda shocked all the citizens, except for the representatives of those citizens in the parliament. Who, except for a few, avoided the discussion about the judge who sentenced the killer - instead of the required 40 years in prison for brutal murder - to only 12 for domestic violence. Is it possible that there is a judge who concluded that the victim was not beaten long enough to prove intent, asked a civil activist at the protest. It is, thanks to those who ran the Montenegrin judiciary for long enough!
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