The trial of five officers of the Police Administration was postponed yesterday for the fourth time since February, when the proceedings against the police officers for the beating of the late Aleksandar Pejanović were joined.
This time, their defense attorney, lawyer Nikola Martinović, on whose proposal the proceedings were joined, did not appear at the scheduled hearing, and the defendants did not want to present their defense without his presence. The trial was postponed until July XNUMX, and judge Larisa Stamatović-Mijušković told the defendants that they must testify at the next hearing, whether their lawyer appeared or not.
Police officers Ivica Paunović, Milan Kljajević, Milanko Leković, Bojan Radunović and Dobrivoje Đuričić were accused of abuse and torture by assisting in the multi-day beating of the now deceased Aleksandar Pejanović in a concrete mixer in Podgorica, after a protest meeting for the Government's recognition of Kosovo's independence three years ago.
The lawyer of the injured Pejanović family, Dalibor Kavarić, as well as the prosecutor Saša Čađenović, pointed out that they suspect the obstruction of the proceedings, considering that both before and after the merger of the proceedings against the accused policemen, the trials were constantly postponed due to the non-appearance of Martinović or one of the defendants. .
"This is their mutual agreement, this kind of behavior is unacceptable. This is a mockery of the legal system and a mockery of the victim and her family," said Kavarić.
The now retired policeman Goran Stanković, who received the status of a witness in that proceeding, because the prosecution and the Pejanović family had previously abandoned his criminal prosecution, requested that the court send him a written summons for the trial, because, he claims, he has not received one so far.
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