Police officers Ivica Paunović, Milan Kljajević, Milanko Leković, Bojan Radunović and Dobrivoje Đuričić said yesterday in the Basic Court in Podgorica that they did not participate in the beating. of the late Aleksandar Pejanović, and that they neither heard nor saw that, four years ago, someone beat him in the custody of the Podgorica police.
Paunović, Kljajević and Leković are charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm, as well as abuse and torture, while Radunović and Đuričić are charged with a private lawsuit for grievous bodily harm and abuse and torture by aiding and abetting, as well as failure to report in connection with negligent work.
Paunović said that he does not remember exactly what happened at the end of October and the beginning of November 2008 in the detention facilities, but that he knows that Pejanović was brought in during his shift. He stated that Goran Stanković also worked with him at the time, and that he saw that Pejanović had "some injuries on his face, which were noted earlier in the minutes".
Conflicting statements
Although he said yesterday that he did not transfer Pejanović from one cell to another, the judge warned him about his earlier statement in which he stated that he transferred him to another cell because it was warmer there, and returned him to his cell in the morning.
"A lot of time has passed, I can't remember everything now," said Paunović
"A lot of time has passed, I can't remember everything now," said Paunović.
Kljajević and Leković pointed out that Pejanović did not complain of any injuries, and that if someone beat him, it could not have happened during their shift.
"He was brought in around half past one, and he himself said that they beat him a maximum of three or four hours after that. "Our shift started at 19:XNUMX p.m.," he said.
Retired Đuričić pointed out that no one had ever objected to him during his 33 years of work, because he always tried to help everyone, and that he had not noticed any of Pejanović's injuries, except for those that were recorded upon his arrival, and which Pejanović himself told him. that he gained at the meeting.
In the previous proceedings, when Paunović, Kljajević and Leković were sentenced to three and five months in prison, the higher court sent the case back for a retrial, because in their opinion not all the facts were established in those proceedings, and prosecutor Saša Čađenović changed the factual situation, but no legal qualification and charged them with slight physical injury.
Pejanović was killed in May last year in front of the building where he lives, and police officer Zoran Bulatović was charged with the murder. The trial of the police officers continues on October 23.
All superiors could enter the concrete mixer
Police officer Milenko Leković objected to the statement of Đuričić, who claimed that only those from the shift, but not others from UP, could enter the "concrete mixer".
"If I heard correctly, a colleague said that no one could enter there, which is not true. The elder and the shift leader could enter, as well as all those who are hierarchically above us," said Leković.
In the Basic Court in Podgorica, proceedings against the head of the Podgorica police Ratko Rondović and his assistant Dusan Raičević for negligent work in the service regarding this case are ongoing. They are accused of having created the conditions and removed the obstacles for Pejanović, for now unknown members of the Intervention Unit, to be beaten several times by not exercising authority within their jurisdiction.
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