The ignition of the "Vijesti" vehicle was ordered from prison?

Stanišić, who you accuse of being the mastermind behind the arson attacks on Vijesti vehicles, spent 2011 in prison and did not use the benefits of going out on the weekend or visiting his family
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Radoslav Gile Stanišić (archive), Photo: Boris Pejović
Radoslav Gile Stanišić (archive), Photo: Boris Pejović
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Ažurirano: 19.05.2020. 15:37h

Podgorica's Radoslav Gile Stanišić had to organize juvenile DM and SP from Spuša prison nine years ago - to set fire to several editorial cars of the independent daily "Vijesti", because he spent the whole of 2011 behind bars...

That man from Podgorica was recently suspected of being the mastermind behind the series of burnings of Vijesti vehicles, which began on July 14, 2011.

That Stanišić was in prison for all 365 days of that year was confirmed to "News" by the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, explaining that he was in the Investigation Prison for the first months, and then in the Penitentiary.

"During serving his prison sentence in the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions in 2011, the person from RS did not use the benefits of going outside the prison premises (weekends, holidays, family visits). In the mentioned period, the named prisoner had the possibility to use the UIKS payphones in order to contact and communicate with his family, while the use of a mobile phone was forbidden to him according to the regulations", replied the Public Relations Department of the UIKS.

According to official data, not a single mobile phone was taken from Stanišić that year.

"During the specified period of time, the RS prisoner was not disciplined for a disciplinary offense due to the possession of illegal items and objects," explained UIKS.

They won't spoil the reconnaissance

Neither the Basic State Prosecutor's Office nor the Police Administration answered the questions of "Vijesti" - how Stanišić did it from prison, considering that in that case he is accused of having committed a criminal offense - causing general danger through incitement.

"Reconnaissance is underway. In the interests of the investigation, we cannot provide more information," said the spokeswoman of the Podgorica ODT, prosecutor Milica Mandić.

The police, without answering specific questions, explained that officers of the criminal police of the Security Center Podgorica - through the implementation of investigative activities with the aim of elucidating the criminal acts of arson on the official vehicles of ND "Vijesti" from 2011 and 2014, obtained data, and after that provided material evidence that there are grounds for suspecting that three persons participated in the execution of the aforementioned criminal acts.

"Two persons have been deprived of their liberty, while one person is currently on the run and a warrant has been issued for him, which is why intensive activities are being undertaken to locate him and deprive him of his liberty. Data on the identity of suspects, possible perpetrators, orderers or any other data on the basis of which it could be concluded which perpetrators of the criminal offense are involved, as well as data on who will be heard in the proceedings, due to the protection of the interests of this investigative procedure, cannot be made public, taking into account the fact that one of the three suspects is on the run", said the UP.

Stanišić is on the run, while the minors are behind bars.

Investigation after the burning of Vijesti's vehicle in 2014
Investigation after the burning of Vijesti's vehicle in 2014(Photo: Savo Prelevic)

For more than a month, they do not answer the questions - whether the arrested or the principal are members of an organized criminal group and if so, which ones, but also whether it is possible that the minors did their work so "professionally" that they could not be traced for nine years.

They do not even answer the question of whether any of the suspects were questioned in the first days of the investigation.

They are silent about hearings

Stanišić, a day after the representatives of the police and the prosecutor's office organized a press conference and labeled him as the principal, responded to their allegations, claiming that he had nothing to do with the burning of the "Vijesti" vehicle, that is, that he was 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. I know the mentioned perpetrators only by sight. My knowledge is that they are both 23 years old, and that they were 13 years old at the time of the crime. This does not solve the case, but places the burden on an innocent man," says Stanišić's denial, which was provided to Vijesti by a member of his immediate family.

In July and August 2011, as well as in February 2014, "Vijesti" did not publish any articles about Radoslav Gil Stanišić and the so-called Zagorica criminal clan, so the question arises - from which center of power and why was he ordered to organize the attack on the property of "Vijesti", if the police-prosecutor information is correct...

Chronology

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 surveillance cameras, which shows two men who are assumed to be involved in the case.

The Embassy 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 ten 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, however, "only" three guns were found, so criminal charges were filed against the same number of people for illegal possession of weapons...

They are also looking for him because of the wounding of Igor Krstović

Stanišić has been on the run since the end of February, when the police arrested his uncle Vidoj (31) on suspicion of having participated in the attempted murder of Igor Krstović.

Stanišići near CB Podgorica
Stanišići near CB Podgorica(Photo: Boris Pejović)

The Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects Stanišić and his cousin Dragiša Bulatović (25) of being members of a criminal organization responsible for the attempted murder of Krstović. They are accused of helping the members of the crime group who fired 26 shots at the car in which Krstović was at the end of January.

Stanišić was arrested on February 28, and Bulatović 13 days earlier.

On the same day that they arrested Vidoj Stanišić, the police searched the house of Radoslav Gil Stanišić, but they did not find him.

He was also questioned by the police on February 15, when Bulatović was arrested. However, he was not detained then.

Despite announcements that they would respond, the Police Administration did not explain when and what they did to arrest Radoslav Stanišić for the last time, nor did they determine whether he had left Montenegro.

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