"Vukotić was trying to scare the policemen"

The Kotor Basic Prosecutor's Office rejected the report of the alleged leader of the Skaljar clan Jovan Vukotić, who asked that, as well as the Special State Prosecutor's Office, to prosecute several police officers who, as he claims, ordered him to come to the local police station on October 22 last year, where he was allegedly being stalked by a hired killer.

As stated in the explanation of the decision, which was signed by the plaintiff Jovana Čizmović, there is no evidence from which there would be a reasonable suspicion that the officers of the Kotor police have committed any crime for which they are being prosecuted ex officio.

In a letter to the prosecutor's office, the police stated, among other things, that Kotoranin's safety was not threatened, but that he tried to discredit and intimidate police officers with the report.

Vukotić previously wrote in the report that the police suddenly and without reason stopped him and called him to the Kotor police station, and that he was armed in front of that building. Petar Mujović, "with the intention of depriving Vukotić of his life"...

His legal representative also stated that none of the policemen noticed Mujović, but that he was accompanied by Vukotić, "who brought him to the police"...

HE DID NOT WANT TO GET OUT OF THE CAR

"It is indisputable that on the critical day, the police officers of the Kotor Security Department, carrying out the official act of regular traffic control, stopped an 'audi A8' PMW in front of the Vrmac tunnel, in which Jovan Vukotić was with four other persons of security interest, in order to inspect the vehicle and persons, which Vukotić did not allow, because he did not want to get out of the vehicle, and when he was verbally informed that due to this fact he should go to the premises of the OB Kotor for an informational interview, he refused, asking for a summons to be delivered to him, which certainly required a certain amount of time, and which indicates that Vukotić was not at the will of the police officers in front of the Vrmac tunnel and exposed to danger, as stated in the report", is part of the explanation of the decision.

The plaintiff states that, as they informed her, immediately after arriving in front of the Security Department, the police officers stopped the traffic for the movement of vehicles and pedestrians in the immediate vicinity and "performed a complete observation of the entire exterior and interior of the OB Kotor building."

"... Vukotić was told that an inspection of the vehicle would be carried out, and to that end he should hand over the vehicle key, which he did... and continued moving in the direction of the OB Kotor building, and at that moment there were no persons present in front of the building itself, nor in his immediate vicinity... Vukotić was followed from the parking lot to the interior by two police officers and together with him entered the interior of the building," the prosecution's decision reads.

It is said that the policewoman who was in the parking lot spotted an unknown person "passing by the ramp and the official parking lot and looking at the OB Kotor building" with a phone in his hand...

"So she informed a colleague who was in the immediate vicinity to go after that person, which he did and caught up with him at the end of the local road, near the approach path to the OB Kotor building, where two more police officers approached and determined that it's about the person Mujović Petar from Nikšić"...

It is said that he was also taken to the official premises and that a gun with 14 bullets was found in his possession...

At the end of the notification, the police concluded that Vukotić's report was an attempt to discredit the professional conduct of the police, as well as "exerting a certain type of pressure and possibly intimidating police officers"...

"Inspecting the video surveillance, all the statements made by the police are confirmed, as well as the fact that the person Mujović Petar appears for the first time at 14.42:100 p.m. on the section of the local road Kotor - Muo, moving on foot in the direction of the Muo settlement, where he then returns and continues the movement and direction of the Kotor General Hospital, and that at the moment when Mujović first appears, at a distance of 14.42 meters from the OB Kotor building, around 14.39:XNUMX p.m., Vukotić was already inside the Kotor OB building, into which he was introduced at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. , at which point Vukotić was with other persons in the office premises, while Mujović was escorted to another part of the building and at no point did he meet any person in the building", explained the prosecutor.

CRIMINAL CHARGES

In the criminal report of Vukotić's legal representatives, it is stated that the armed Mujović was noticed by the entourage of that resident of Kotor.

It is explained that they noticed an encrypted phone in his hands and asked him what he was doing there, and that there was a conflict, that they managed to overpower him, report him and take him to the police, who were two meters away.

"During that time, Vukotić was in the police station waiting and doing nothing, because the policemen, on whose orders he had to come, did not pay attention to him, nor did they ask him for anything. The police were surprised when the escort first overpowered and then reported Mujović. Vukotić then asked the police officers what they wanted from him and what he should do, because he had been waiting a long time, to which they replied that he did not need to do anything and that he was free and could go, which surprised Vukotić, considering that stopped in front of the tunnel, where he waited for an hour to receive a written summons and thought he had something important to do at the police station," the report says.

Lekić: Who was he waiting for with a bullet in the barrel?

Vukotić's legal representative, lawyer Damir Lekić, said that the dismissal of the criminal complaint surprised him, but also worried him.

"It is true that authorized police officers in accordance with the CPC, the Law on Internal Affairs and their internal acts have certain powers in the procedure. However, there was primarily no need for them, and this was confirmed when Jovan Vukotić joined the OB Kotor, where nothing was asked of him, but upon his arrival at the OB Kotor, he was soon released. And secondly, e.g. and that there was some need, and we saw that it was not, certainly considering the personality of Jovan Vukotić, whom the competent state authorities of Serbia and Montenegro carried out in secret under full police equipment, escort, and phantoms on their heads and special procedures, when it was necessary to the competent state prosecutor's offices and courts, when his freedom of movement was limited, as well as the specific situation itself, the authorized police officers of OB Kotor, who are more than well acquainted with it, had to act more cautiously and much more carefully, and obviously much 'smarter'", said Lekić.

The Kotor prosecutor's office, Lekić points out, does not see this behavior of the police as controversial, but states that the police officers had the right to do so.

"Then it turned out that at that time, in the immediate vicinity of the OB Kotor police station, an armed person was found with a pistol, a full frame of bullets, one of which was in the barrel. So a man with a gun ready to fire. And who he was waiting for and why he found himself there, obviously for the police of OB Kotor and ODT Kotor is not in dispute"...

He said that it is strange that everything is now the fault of Vukotić, who was stopped by the police out of the blue and unprovoked, and he only asked that his guaranteed rights be respected.

Lekić claims that it cannot be attributed to the professional behavior of the police that their officers first stopped him for no reason and then detained him on the street without any reason, and finally took Vukotić to the station.

"While they bring him to the police station where they do not ask him for anything, in the meantime an apparently potential assailant has emerged. This is not professional behavior, ignorance and lack of understanding, but obviously something else. Nalažost, ODT in Kotor doesn't see it or doesn't want to see it, said Lekić.

After reviewing the video surveillance footage, the allegations of the criminal complaint that the person Mujović Petar was at the very entrance to the OB Kotor building at the moment when Vukotić, along with the other persons, were brought to the front door"...

It is not ignorance, but something else

Lawyer Lekić claims that the fact that their officers first stopped him for no reason, and then held him on the street without any reason, and finally took Vukotić to the station, cannot be attributed to the professional behavior of the police.

"While they bring him to the police station where they do not ask him for anything, in the meantime an apparently potential assailant has emerged. This is not professional behavior, ignorance and lack of understanding, but clearly something else. Nalažost, ODT in Kotor does not see it or does not want to see it Why? I will leave it to their honor. Jovan Vukotić, unfortunately, expected this kind of decision from the start, and this is actually a confirmation of everything he spoke about previously, both himself and through his lawyers, which is that the law does not apply equally to everyone and that there are privileged and privileged in it, which should not happen at all," said Lekić.