Goran Biskupović, Miloš Bošnjak, Đorđe Sekulović, Milan Peković, Boško Božović, Dražen Čađenović, Predrag Pedo Pejović, Nikola Ćupić, Petar Muhadinović and Đorđije Božović died in the war of the Montenegrin clans by activating an explosive device.
Marko Martinović, Duško Roganović, Dragan Damjanović, Aleksandar Keković and Jelena Korać were seriously wounded by the activation of explosives planted under the car.
None of these crimes have been solved, and the police and the prosecutor's office do not inform the public whether they are even on the trail of the perpetrators of the crime.
Those killed and wounded by planting explosives are part of the intentional and accidental victims of the cocaine war that has been raging since the end of 2014.
In that war, 46 people lost their lives, and 19 were seriously wounded.
Five people are dead because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There are just as many seriously wounded by accident.
Some targets escaped death due to the mistake of those who placed the bombs or, as in the case of planting explosives under the car of Radojica Zeković, they were saved by passers-by.
"Today, the state, society and every citizen are faced with the consequences of organized crime, which has been growing for years and decades, silently or with the support of the system," Stevo Muk, chairman of the board of directors of the Institute of Alternatives, told "Vijesti".
He said that things got out of control a long time ago:
"And the public is faced with the fact that conflicts between organized criminal groups represent a real threat to the safety of every citizen. It is necessary that the enormous state and political energy, which is spent on some other topics, be sincerely dedicated to the fight against corruption and organized crime, which are inevitably intertwined. The fight against violence and threats to security must be redoubled, and the experiences of other countries show that its success depends on whether that fight will be directed at the source of the problem, the financial resources of organized criminal groups," he said. Muk assessed that in this work, the security services need sincere and strong political support, the integrity of the leadership of the services, but also the conviction of the officers directly involved in this struggle - that they have the support and protection of the state in the dangerous work they are engaged in. "Finally, evidence is needed that their work produces concrete results through appropriate prosecutorial procedures and court rulings. "Unfortunately, most of those elements in the whole story were missing until now," he said.
The recent explosion in Podorica's Dalmatinska street raised passions among the public, who are looking for results, but also the responsibility of those in charge of the safety of citizens.
Although the political parties demanded resignations the day after the explosion, no one from the police offered their chair, on the contrary - the head of the Criminal Police Department, Enis Baković, said in a guest appearance on TV Vijesta that he feels responsibility, but that he will not resign.
The first bomb went off in Podgorica
The reckoning of the Kotor clans by activating explosives began in Podgorica on February 19, 2015 - at noon, just a hundred meters from a kindergarten, a tobacconist, a bar... in a devastating explosion, the armored "Audi A-8" of Milan Vujotić was destroyed.
Vujotić, who the police say is a trusted man of the alleged heads of the Kavaje criminal clan, Radoj Zvicer and Slobodan Kašćelan, was not in the car when the device was activated.
A year and a couple of months later, on September 5, 2016, Kotorani Biskupović and Bošnjak were killed in an unprecedented way in local mafia confrontations - by an improvised explosive device mine (RMUD), at the moment when they were walking past the explosives.
They were liquidated in the Muo settlement of Kotor, close to the house of the late Biskupović.
The explosive device that killed them was hidden in the bushes and was activated remotely.
The investigation established that the mine was additionally modified, and that it had an extremely powerful weapon.
No one was responsible for their deaths. The investigators unofficially announced that Biskupović was close to the Škaljar criminal clan, and that the Bosniak was most likely accidentally blown up by a mine.
Three months after that, on December 19, Martinović was seriously injured in a car explosion in Podgorica.
He was injured after an explosive was activated on the car he was in, and at the moment when one of the alleged leaders of the Skaljar clan, Igor Vukotić, was getting into it, he was not injured.
The public was not informed that anyone was held accountable for that explosion, which also caused a reaction from one of the alleged leaders of the Skaljars - Jovan Vukotić.
He then announced that the police are full of criminals with badges, who are on the payroll of mafia bosses, and thanks to that, innocent people die in Montenegro every day - "because dirty policemen clean the field only for their friends and that's the only thing they care about." ". He then said that he, like all his friends "including the late Đorđe Boreta and Dalibor Đurić, never had anything to do with the disappearance of the famous 200 kilograms of cocaine somewhere in Valencia. During that period, Jovan Vukotić was serving a one-year prison sentence. Đurić too".
Although he was not questioned on those charges, the Special State Prosecutor's Office said they had investigated his allegations and that there are no police officers on the mafia's payroll.
They killed themselves, not the target
Đorđe Sekulović from Podgorica was killed in January 2017, and Jelena Korać was seriously injured.
An explosive device with strong destructive power was activated by remote control, placed under the parked "Megan", at the moment when the two got into the car.
The explosives were attached to the pathos of the car, right under the driver's seat.
The amount placed on the car is best explained by the fact that both of Sekulović's legs were torn off in the detonation, and that the shock wave threw his body several meters away from the vehicle.
His killer still eludes justice. Sekulović was allegedly close to Mario Milošević, whom the police call a member of the Kavača clan.
Three months later - on April 26, Duško Roganović lost both legs, after the "golf" he was driving exploded in Herceg Novi around 15:XNUMX p.m. The detonation occurred on the Adriatic highway near the main bus station in that city, while the vehicle was moving from Meljin to Igalo. The police and the prosecutor's office did not say who tried to kill the alleged member of the Kavac clan. One passerby was slightly injured in that explosion.
In August 2017, Boško Božović and Milan Peković from Nkšić died in Tivat while they were preparing an explosive device, which was supposed to be used in the assassination of one of Kašćelan's security chiefs. There is no official information about that explosion.
In March of the following year, explosives blew up Dražen Čađenović from Podgorica, close to the Skaljar clan. It was liquidated in a garage on Rimski trg in Podgorica.
The first results of the investigation showed that the explosive device was placed under the armored "BMW" he was driving. The bomb, the interlocutors of "Vijesti" from the Police Directorate said at the time, was most likely activated by remote control twenty seconds after Čađenović entered the underground garage with his vehicle.
Less than two months later - on May 2, explosives were detonated under the car in which Predrag Pedo Pejović and Damjanović from Nikšić were. Pejović died three days later, and doctors managed to save Damjanović's life.
As with all explosions up to that point, arrests, interrogations, surveillance footage were reviewed, but the killer is still unknown.
Nikola Ćupić from Cetinje was liquidated in the same way, in Podgorica, in February 2019. His car, under which the device was placed, exploded in the city center on Novak Milošević Street, at 10.40:XNUMX a.m.
The police did not say who pressed the button and why.
Unofficially, they announced that friendship with members of both clans cost Ćupić his head.
Explosions in 2020 as well.
His fellow citizen Petar Muhadinović was killed in an explosion ten days ago - on February 27, 2020.
The bomb placed under his jeep was activated that day at around 12.40:XNUMX p.m., while the fifty-one-year-old man was passing the Boulevard of Montenegrin Heroes in Cetinje. A child who was passing by in the immediate vicinity was slightly injured in the explosion.
The police unofficially told journalists that Muhadinović is close to the Kavački clan. In the first hours after the murder, the head of the local police, Igor Popović, announced that the murder was also the result of a clash between clans.
It was denied by the chief special prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić, who said that the murdered man had no connection with the clans.
Nevertheless, a day later, Baković stood behind Popović's statement and asserted that it was also a continuation of the war.
After the murder of Muhadinović, the police detained the Cetinje skaljars, but no one was detained after the interrogation.
A few days later - on March 4, Đorđije Božović was killed in a horrific car explosion, and Aleksandar Keković and a passer-by were seriously injured.
Božović is part of the Podgorica branch of the Škaljar clan.
The police department claims that the explosives were in their car, but, they said, they will wait for the results of the expert examination for a final assessment.
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