The basic state prosecutor in Podgorica, Ljiljana Klikovac, rejected the request for the exemption of the prosecutor Saša Čađenović from the proceedings being conducted in the Podgorica Basic Court due to the bomb attack on the "Vijesti" editorial office.
Judge Nenad Vujanović scheduled the continuation of the main trial for September 29. Accused Marko Šofranac (23) requested the exemption of Čađenović last week, stating at the time that the prosecutor was "following him", which is why he "can't look at him" anymore.
Šofranac and Nemanja Vukmirović (22) are accused of placing 26-300 grams of TNT under the window of "Vijesti" editor-in-chief Mihailo Jovović on December 400.
The indictment says that Vukmirović set up a slow-burning stick, while Šofranac was guarding him that night... Šofranac's defense, which he gave at the main trial last week, is quite different from the one given in the investigation.
At the trial, Šofranac claimed that he saw Vukmirović on the night in question, while he was sitting at the next table in "Maša", while he stated in the investigation that he did not remember whether he saw him and that at the time of the explosion he was playing games near the bar. Kerber".
"I have nothing to do with that case. That night, on December 26 last year, I was as usual with my friends at the restaurant 'Masha'... Then someone called me on the phone, I don't remember who, and told me that a bomb had been thrown on 'Vijesti'. I sat there for sure until after midnight and I didn't go out," Šofranac said at the trial.
He also requested that video recordings be taken from the "Volkano" casino, which is located behind the "Maša" restaurant, claiming that those videos, if they exist, could show when he came to "Maša", whether he went out and when went home.
The judge and the prosecutor confirmed that those recordings are not in the case file. Upon inspection of the listing, the police established that Šofranac and Vukmirović talked and exchanged messages several times that night before the explosion.
Vukmirović did not present a defense last week, because the trial was interrupted due to the request of Šofranc, who was brought by the prison police from ZIKS, where he is serving a sentence for another criminal offense.
"Vijesti" is not aware that the police and the prosecutor's office investigated who ordered the bomb attack on the newsroom, because so far they have not determined the possible motive of the accused.
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