How old were the suspects when they allegedly set fire to the "Vijesti" vehicles, did the Podgorica prosecutor's office receive a letter from the High Court - that they could not be tried for crimes from 2011 because they were minors, was the motive for this determined? done, these are just some of the questions that the authorities do not answer for days...
This action lasts for a long period of time, and what we have now is the result of the evaluation of all the evidence individually and their mutual dependence", said prosecutor Turković during an online press conference on April 8.
The arrested SP and DM from Podgorica remain in custody after the Podgorica High Court rejected the appeals of their defense attorneys to be released, but the police, the courts and the Podgorica Prosecutor's Office will not comment further on the case after the scant information presented at the press conference on April 8.
The representatives of the police and the Podgorica prosecutor's office then announced that after almost nine years they had shed light on the crimes committed against Vijesta, specifying that three cases had been solved - from July and August 2011 and one case from February 2014, in which a total of five were destroyed independent logbook vehicles.
They claim that SP and DM did it on the order of Radoslav Gil Stanišić, who denied it.
They are charged with the criminal offense of causing general danger, and Stanišić is charged with causing general danger by inciting...
"The higher court in Podgorica rejected the lawyers' appeals against the decision on custody, so both defendants for this criminal offense are still in custody. Their criminal responsibility is the subject of criminal proceedings, which are now in the investigation (preparatory) phase. Therefore, we cannot give you more information about it in the interest of the investigation", said Milica Mandić, state prosecutor and spokeswoman at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
At the same time, "Vijesti" tried to check the accuracy of the information - that the extra-judicial panel of the High Court in Podgorica made a decision that SP and DM could not be tried for criminal offenses from 2011, because at the time of the commission of the criminal offenses they were younger minors 14 years of life.
I categorically claim that I have nothing to do with the burning of the vehicle of the daily newspaper "Vijesti", i.e. I am not the principal. I don't know whose imagination this is, constructed by concealing the real perpetrators. In 2011, I was serving a prison sentence," Stanišić wrote, among other things, in his reaction...
"We inform you that the questions refer to the procedure in which the Law on the treatment of minors in criminal proceedings is applied and that we do not provide information in those cases," said Aida Muzurović, independent advisor for public relations of the High Court.
That's how they answered the questions from that court - for which criminal offenses they can be tried, if they were younger minors at the time of the crime in 2011 or 2014, that is, for which criminal offenses they cannot be tried and why. .
A similar answer came from the Basic Court in Podgorica:
"I am informing you that the case files along with the letter from this court, after the decision of the High Court in Podgorica, have been submitted to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica for further processing...", said Nikoleta Golubović, public relations advisor of the Basic Court in Podgorica.
Law and minors
Lawyer Damir Lekić explained in detail to "Vijesta" what is prescribed by law, if the correct information is that the suspects were minors at the time of the crime...
"Regarding the issue related to the possibility, that is, the impossibility of trying persons for criminal acts committed in their youth as children or minors, the provisions of the Law on treatment of minors in criminal proceedings should be taken into account. Namely, according to that law, a person who has not reached the age of 14 is considered a child, and if he, as such, that is, before he reached the age of 14, committed an illegal act that is defined in the law as criminal, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 2 of that law, according to the same, no criminal proceedings can be conducted, nor can the sanctions and measures prescribed by that law be applied. Therefore, a child, that is a person before the age of 14, will not be subjected to repressions of this type, with the fact that one more privilege can be observed in relation to the same, which is that they do not commit a criminal offense with their actions, but an illegal one. an act defined by law as criminal. They cannot commit a criminal offense, nor can they be prosecuted, and sanctions and measures cannot be applied to them. Therefore, persons who have not reached the age of 14 cannot be tried", said Lekić.
He explained that an adult who has reached the age of 21 cannot be tried for a criminal offense committed as a minor between the ages of 14 and 16.
"An extremely adult person, who at the time of the trial has not yet reached the age of 21, can be tried for a criminal offense that he committed as a minor between the full 14 and the unfulfilled 16 years of his life, but only in the case where punishments are prescribed for the same imprisonment for more than five years", said lawyer Lekić.
Chronology
In July and August 2011, as well as in February 2014, "Vijesti" did not publish a single article about Radoslav Gil Stanišić and the so-called Zagorica criminal clan, so the question arises from which center of power and why he was ordered to organize an attack on property. News", if the police-prosecutor information is correct...
The independent newspaper's series of car burnings began on July 14, 2011, when two vehicles parked across the street from the National Security Agency were destroyed.
The investigation was led by Ekan Jasavić, then head of the branch for blood and sexual crimes, fires, explosions and accidents.
The second arson occurred on July 23, and the police unofficially announced that it was done by a "small, skinny man"...
Even then platitudes were repeated that the police are working intensively to solve the case, and the fact that there is no progress in the investigation of the attack on the property of "Vijesti" was repeated in the journalistic equipment of almost every subsequent article.
On Thursday, August 25, a text was published that the police from the US Embassy was provided with a video from the surveillance cameras, which shows two men who are assumed to be involved in the case.
The Amabasade building is a few hundred meters away from the place where two "Vijesti" cars were set on fire.
Two days later, another vehicle was killed in an arson attack: a van parked near the "Pavle Rovinski" Elementary School in Podgorica.
In the night between February 13 and 14, 2014, another vehicle was destroyed. "Vijesti" was told that around 2:25 a.m. a man poured gasoline and set fire to the official Nissan, which was parked in front of the building on Vojvoda Stanko Radonjić Boulevard on Tuška put in Podgorica.
It was said that the cameras recorded the ignition, that the attacker was not masked and that he was probably a man between 20 and 25 years old, about 178 centimeters tall...
Back in February 2012, the Podgorica police searched the houses of a dozen members of the Zagorica gang due to the suspicion that, as it was said at the time, they were connected to many criminal acts, and some of them to the burning of the "Vijesti" car.
After the pompous action and arrest, however, "only" three guns were found, so criminal charges were filed against the same number of people for illegal possession of weapons...
Unanswered questions
The questions sent to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica remained unanswered - whether they received the decision of the High Court in Podgorica, that the suspects for setting fire to the "Vijesti" vehicle cannot be tried, since they were minors at the time of the crime in 2011. ..
"What are the further consequences of this decision? "Does the legal qualification of criminal offenses change, and does such a decision of the High Court panel affect the further investigation", are some of the questions of the "Vijesti" editorial office.
Minor professionals
For days, the Police Administration has not answered the questions of "Vijesti" - how old were the two suspects for setting fire to the "Vijesti" vehicle when, according to that institution, they committed the crime...
"Is it possible that the minors did such a 'professional' job, that you couldn't trace them for nine years? Were any of the suspects interrogated in the first days of the investigation", are questions to which the Police Administration did not answer.
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