Podgorica Basic Court Judge Danilo Jegdić will reopen the main hearing in the case between the State of Montenegro and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Coast (MCP), although he should have made a decision on the case at the end of the month. This was confirmed to "Vijesta" by the spokeswoman of that court, Ivana Becić.
Jegdić believes that the factual situation in the process in which the state is asking the Serbian Orthodox Church to return the church of St. Dimitri in Kruševac in Podgorica has not been sufficiently clarified.
At the same time, MCP priests claim that the building in the King Nikola Palace complex has always been owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", in the continuation of the process, the judge will ask the Metropolis for proof that the disputed church was in its property or the state's, i.e. whether they have any document that it is their property or that they had the right to use it.
MCP priests Velibor Džomić, Dragan Mitrović and Boris Brajović testified earlier that Archpriest Milija Lačković was the elder of that church from 1945 to the XNUMXs.
After him, the management of the religious building was taken over by Mitrović until 2003, then by Džomić until 2008, and after him by Brajović, who is still the elder of the church today.
According to them, after Milija retired, the church was usurped by the communist authorities, who used it as a warehouse-morgue.
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