Jovan Grujičić from Podgorica was acquitted of the charges that he threw a bomb at the former bar "Grand" and the house of former secret police agent Duško Golubović.
This is what his lawyer Damir Lekić told "Vijesta", explaining that it is a first-instance verdict of the Basic Court in Podgorica, that is, Judge Nenad Vujanović.
He is accused of having committed a criminal offense - causing general danger in conjunction with the criminal offense of illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials.
Jovan Grujičić and members of his family have repeatedly denied that he participated in those crimes, explaining that he was brutally tortured in the Podgorica Security Center until a confession was forced from him.
Because of this, his father Budimir filed a report against the head of the Criminal Police, Miloš Vučinić, and the head of blood crimes at the Podgorica Security Center, Srđan Korać.
Judge Vujanović also stated yesterday, Vijesti was told, that Grujičić's confession immediately after he was arrested - is not in accordance with the other evidence presented during the trial.
"For the judge, in addition to the above, Jovan Grujičić's reference to allegations of illegal and unprofessional police behavior was also symptomatic, because in addition to him, Benjamin Mugoša and Marko Boljević also made the same claims... An investigation was launched against those policemen" , said lawyer Lekić.
Both Mugoša and Boljević claimed to have survived police torture as part of that investigation.
After Grujičić's criminal complaint against the police officers, the police announced that they acted legally and exclusively "according to the instructions and orders of the acting prosecutor"...
They then appealed to all state authorities and institutions to conduct effective investigations in order to ensure the efficiency of the procedure.
"All the police officers who acted in the specific case, including the management staff, in recent months have been exposed to strong media pressure and accusations that are completely fabricated from various addresses, which is an attempt to mislead the judicial authorities of Montenegro and justify to the principals and injured persons ", the police announced at the time.
It is obvious that this is an afterthought, which the police, according to professional standards, will not comment on. The synchronized planning of alleged police torture by the suspects is another confirmation that these subsequent reactions are directed towards an attempt to justify the crimes committed, both towards the injured persons and towards the perpetrators of these serious crimes...
In the criminal complaint, Jovan's father claimed that if the police had wanted to, they could have interrogated his son in the hospital in Dobrota - where he was being treated, but that it did not suit them:
In the hospital in Kotor, as he wrote at the time, they could not apply methods such as - not giving therapy, hitting the kidneys, loins and feet with a baseball bat, torture with electric shockers on the genitals, eyelids, pulling on and hitting with boxing gloves...
He claimed that one of the police officers rode him at the end of the torture.
Was in prison when the bombs fell
Just one day after the investigators concluded that they had shed light on the case of the bombings, information was published that Benjamin Mugoša was in prison at the time of the crimes.
Soon after, he was cleared of all suspicions.
Boljević was not included in the criminal complaint, so in the end only Grujičić was tried, whose parents were persistent in their claims that their son, as they said, was abducted from treatment in Dobrota, from where he was taken to the official premises of the Podgorica police and brutally tortured.
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