For more than a year, since the reports of police abuse of Marko Boljević, Benjamin Mugoša and Jovan Grujučić, no charges have been brought, and we believe that this investigation is not effective, said the director of Action for Human Rights, Tea Gorjanc Prelević.
She said this at a conference where Action for Human Rights and the Autonomous Civil Movement will present the conclusions of the report of foreign experts on the forensic medical examination of Jovan Grujičić and Marko Boljević, who reported that the police abused them in May 2020 during the investigation of the so-called "bomb attacks" on the Grand bar and Duško Golubović's house.
The reports were prepared at the request of Action for Human Rights by an international expert group of independent forensic experts (Dr. Onder Ozkalipci, Dr. Đorđe Alempijević and Dr. Pierre Duterte), which operates under the umbrella of the International Council for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (IRCT). The independent expert opinion was funded by the United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture.
The reports were prepared in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol of the United Nations - Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Gorjanc Prelevic said that the same thing is happening that happened in the cases of torture against the now deceased Aleksandar Pejanović, but also in the cases of abuse and police torture against Mija Martinović in "Zlatarska" street.
The executive director of the HRA called on the director of the police (Zoran Brđanin) to urgently prosecute the police officers responsible for the torture, and then prevent them from doing it any further.
She pointed out that in the case of Jovan Grujičić, for ten months, the authorities did not want to determine how and when he got his injuries, but the prison doctor only examined him and that superficially.
Foreign experts determined with a high degree of consistency the use of electric shockers on the bodies of Jovan Grujičić and Marko Boljević, said Gorjanc Prelević.
Gorjanc Prelevic explained that the authorities in the prosecution did not order a psychological psychiatric examination of Mugoša, Grujičić and Boljević in order to establish torture, abuse and torture.
This, she explained, was done by foreign experts, specially trained for the expert examination of victims of torture, police and military torture and abuse.
Gorjanc Prelevic said that domestic experts claimed that Grujicic's injuries occurred before he was taken to the Podgorica Security Center, but their findings were refuted by foreign experts.
The president of the Autonomous Civil Movement, Predrag Spasojević, said that the report of foreign experts confirmed what the three abused persons stated in the report.
"Those people are paid by the citizens of Montenegro, they are the people we should call if we have a problem," he said.
Spasojević emphasized that the torture was very specific against Marko Boljević, who was examined as a witness.
"No inspector has been suspended and they are still at work, the procedure is still in the investigation phase, and the simplest thing was for the director of the police to start a disciplinary procedure," he said.
He pointed out that torture still continues in some cases.
Jovan Grujičić explained how three inspectors kidnapped him from a psychiatric institution, tortured him, abused him and asked him to sign a statement about a case he knew nothing about.
"I defended myself as much as I could, not by responding to violence with violence, but by declaring that I was not guilty, but they continued. In the end, I signed, and they told me that it was good, because if I didn't sign, a trunk was ready for me in which I would they stuffed me and left me somewhere in a smashed car," said Grujičić.
His legal representative, lawyer Damir Lekić, who also represented Benjamin Mugoša.
He said that as soon as he entered the premises of CB Podgorica, he noticed injuries on Mugoš and took him to the prosecutor's office to report torture, but the prosecutor first claimed that she did not see any injuries.
"I asked her to come closer, after which she noted the injuries and called an expert. In the meantime, the High Court submitted a certificate that Mugoš was in custody at the time of the crime, but she ordered him to be detained, and then, although she was aware with evidence, decisively claimed at the press conference that they had committed a criminal act," he said.
He said that it is very interesting how forensic medical expertise is done in Montenegro.
"It's as if everything is destined for the prosecutor to be right," he said.
He said that in the last couple of years, police officers, using private luxury vehicles, have been kidnapping people, torturing them, filming them, and then exchanging the footage.
"Is it a fight against organized crime?" he asked.
He explained that the prosecutor in the investigation of the bombings, after all the evidence, judged that Jovan Grujičić's statement was not credible and that Benjamin and Zoran Mugoša could not be charged based on it, but Grujičić, who incriminated himself, could be.
Marko Boljević's representative, lawyer Novica Milošević, said that the prosecutor identified five of the six reported inspectors.
"The fact that we waited 13 months for the identification of police officers reported for extorting statements, and that was simple. The question arises as to what the Internal Control was doing all this time," he said.
Lawyer Milošević said that, if the prosecutor has established the names of the five inspectors, she hopes they are also known to the police director.
Tea Gorjanc Prelevic said that immediately after the arrest of Grujičić, his mother, thanks to the efficient action of the Council for Citizen Control of Police Work, received the names of 11 police officers who treated the man from Podgorica.
"The prosecutor's office has not listened to all of them so far," she said.
She explained that complaints were filed against the retired Supreme State Prosecutor Ivica Stanković back in July of last year, and that a few months later the Prosecutor's Council rejected the complaint.
We will not give up until all those who committed these heinous acts against three people are brought to justice," said Gorjanc Prelevic.
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