Yesterday, the Montenegrin police suffered another setback because their members beat three citizens who did not offer any resistance.
Harsh and condemning reactions came from all sides after a video was published showing members of the Podgorica Intervention Police brutally beating three men in the center of Podgorica.
Miloš Bečanović, one of the policemen who allegedly beat citizens last year, was declared the best student of the ninth generation of the Police Academy in Danilovgrad.
The video shows that Bečanović and his colleagues, Police Academy graduates Slavko Furtula and Marko Stojanović, with Mladen Vujović and Vukoman Maraš, approach three young men who are standing with girls in front of a closed cafe in Njegoševa Street. Judging by the video, which was published yesterday by the portal IN4S, only one of them did not hit any of the three young men.
The others gave one young man about 14 blows, another 11, and the third three. The boy who received the most beatings was thrown to the pavement several times. One of the policemen hit one of the young men's head against the wall several times.
The video shows that none of the beaten young men offered any resistance, and the two girls, who were with them when the police arrived, quickly left the frame.
According to the unofficial information of "Vijesti" from the police, the police officers of the Intervention Unit went around the city on Saturday evening, which was their duty. Around three o'clock in the morning, they passed through Hercegovačka Street past young men who allegedly threw ugly words at them and called them "cops" and the like. Then, the interlocutor of "Vijesti" said, the policemen did not react, but when they passed by a second time and allegedly heard the same insults, they got out of the vehicle and beat the three men. After being beaten, the young men were taken to the Security Center, allegedly for a misdemeanor - insulting and belittling an official.
The source of "Vijesti" told last night that the young men apologized to the policemen immediately on the street when they got out of the official jeep. They continued to apologize in the police premises and, allegedly, the conflict between police officers and citizens was "smoothed out" and no charges were filed against the beaten citizens.
This gave the right to five police officers not to make a mandatory report on the use of coercive measures and not to inform their superiors about how they behaved and what they did, claims the "Vijesti" source.
One of the interlocutors of "Vijesti" from the police said yesterday that the elders found out about the brutal beating of citizens only when the media published a video of the torture.
Director of the Police Administration, Slavko Stojanović, immediately demanded that the head of the Intervention Unit, Milan Radusinović, be dismissed, due to objective responsibility, which Podgorica Police Chief Jovica Rečević did.
Five of Radusinović's employees have been removed from service until today and are subject to the suspension procedure, the Police Directorate told "Vijesti".
In the police announcements, of which there were three yesterday on this occasion, not a single word was explained why Radusinović was dismissed, when Radosav Lješković was not dismissed due to torture, due to the torture of citizens by the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit he commanded.
Minister of Internal Affairs Mevludin Nuhodžić asked the Internal Control to investigate the case immediately.
Both Stojanović and Nuhodžić announced that such behavior of the police towards citizens is unacceptable, that it will not be tolerated and the like.
Most of the interlocutors of "Vijesti" from the police yesterday assessed their announcements as hypocritical.
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