Lawyer Srđan Lješković was arrested today in Nikšić.
According to unofficial information, Lješković had a verbal conflict with police officer Dragoslav Čurović in the Basic Court building in Nikšić, after which he was arrested.
The Police Administration announced that the lawyer was arrested for insolent behavior.
A source close to Lješković, however, claims that the policeman attacked the lawyer.
Lješković said in his statement before the misdemeanor judge, Tamara Dubljević, that he was not allowed to file a criminal complaint at the Nikšić CB because of the threat to security and the almost physical attack on him by Čurović.
According to him, the behavior of Čurović in the court towards him gives him the right to try to endanger his safety in some way, even by pushing him. He claims that the police officer Zoran Gašović stood between him and Čurović, and for that he is grateful to him because he prevented the incident in that way. He said that while he was going down the stairs, Čurović called him a derogatory word.
When the situation began to get out of control, he called 122 to report the policeman and heard that the girl on the other end was saying that the lawyer was reporting Čurović. The lawyer pointed out that at the CB Nikšić asked to file a criminal complaint before the ODT, and not before Čurović's colleagues, and that he was detained at the CB for almost two hours, which gave the police enough time to react, and he was denied his rights.
"I believe that the police director Veselin Veljović is behind this premeditated provocative attack, and that Čurović is just a puppet in his hands," said Lješković and asked the judge to exclude all recordings from and in front of the court, as well as to consider his statement as a criminal complaint and forward it to the ODT for further processing until a decision is made as to whether Čurović is criminally responsible for his actions or not.
He said that he is not guilty and that he did not contribute to the situation in which he found himself.
Police officer Čurović stated that in the hall of the court, lawyer Lješković verbally attacked him, that he punched him in the face while he was speaking, as well as that he continued with the verbal attacks and punching in the face when they left the court, which is why he turned to his colleague Dragan Vuksanović, who is a police officer in the court, to arrest Lješković for insulting him.
Čurović pointed out that he was surprised by the lawyer's behavior, that based on his behavior he could not conclude what Lješković's intention was and that he swears on his son's life and on his life that he did not say a single bad word to the lawyer because that is not his vocabulary.
The lawyer claims that he told Čurović that if he has a problem, they can solve it over coffee, while the policeman pointed out that he did not hear that.
Police witnesses, Milorad Nikolić, Zoran Gašović, Dragan Vuksanović and Vitomir Krsmanović, gave statements in support of their colleague Čurović, so Lješković rejected them because, as he said, they were given deliberately to help his colleague.
Judge Dubljević scheduled a new hearing for February 4, when Živko Živković, Lješkovic's client whom he represents in the retrial, and lawyer Sava Kostić, who represents Čurović and Krsmanovic, who Živković accuses of physically assaulting him in 2017, will appear as witnesses.
The judge also agreed to ask the court for footage from all the video cameras in the court and in front of the court, but she refused Lješković's request to hear the police director, Veselin Veljović, as a witness.
After the search, Lješković told reporters that his case is proof that in this country anyone can be arrested based on a police officer's statement.
"Those same people are accused of causing injuries to my client whom I defended. Is Veljović behind this or not? I am sure he is behind this. After my arrest today, no one in Montenegro is safe. I will file a criminal complaint against the police officer. "I hope that the recordings will not evaporate from the Basic Court, as was the case in other courts, and that they will show what is true. I also hope that they will not be edited, as the police did in the case of Aleksandar Čaka Ivanović," said Lješković. .
"The Nikšić police today deprived S.Lj. (50) of his freedom for committing a misdemeanor from Article 7, paragraph 2 of the Law on Public Order and Peace (impertinent behavior). After the hearing in the Basic Court in Nikšić, he insulted police officer D. C., who was not on duty, and who is a party to the proceedings in which S.Lj is the lawyer of the injured party Ž.Ž. from Nikšić, S.Lj will be brought to the Court of Misdemeanors within the legal term with a Request for the initiation of misdemeanor proceedings ", it was announced from the Police Directorate.
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