RTCG published an audio recording, on which, as they say, the communication of the head of the Podgorica Security Center, Goran Jokić, can be heard, warning police members over the radio that gunshots could be heard at the barricade on Belvedere, during the protest in Cetinje on September 5, and telling them to access the protection procedure in situations where fire is opened on them.
"News" confirmed that it is an authentic police audio-recording documented in the Technique of the Police Administration.
The video allegedly testifies to the drama in the narrowness of the main road near the Auto-moto company at the blockade of demonstrators from the direction of Budva, where the fiercest resistance to the attempt to clear the barricades took place that morning.
There is no information on the audio recording about when the shooting took place, but according to UP data, it all took place fifteen minutes before 8 o'clock on Sunday morning.
In that period, "Vijesti" reporters, as well as journalists from other media, testified that shots were fired several times.
In the video, several gunshots are first heard, and then, over the police link, a voice informs his colleagues with the words: "At our position we have the use of firearms or pyrotechnics on the vehicle, we cannot assess".
After that, the head of the Operational Headquarters of the UP, Goran Jokić, joins the conversation, saying: "withdraw the first personnel", and then a voice can be discerned on the video, stating that "this is a rifle".
After that, Jokić is heard again, asking: "Is it received?", followed by the answer - "yes"!
On the video, Jokić speaks again, this time for a short time, and says "record", and then in the background, shots break out again, which is why one of the elders states via a Motorola: "The bursts are still going on"...
Immediately after that, Jokić orders in a calm tone: "Just protect the people."
On the video of the UP, the voice of the elder is again discernible, informing his colleagues: "We appreciate that we have to retreat", and then in the video it is indistinctly heard: "There are more firearms here"... and then Jokić joins the conversation, who orders : "Just take positions and don't move anywhere".
From the other side comes a short: "Okay".
On the audio recording, the Chief of the Operations Staff can be heard advising: "In case they shoot at you, protect everyone. You know how the use of weapons works." The elder speaks again and says briefly: "Okay."
The "Vijesti" reporter heard gunfire on two occasions around 7,45:XNUMX a.m. on Sunday while he was in Mojkovačka Street near the "Eko Pumpe" at the very entrance to Prijestonica.
On Monday, "Vijesti" published unofficial information from the top of the security sector, that shots were fired during the entry of the criminal police unit, led by one of the assistant directors of the UP, which was moving from the direction of Budva towards the Cetinje monastery, and that the police are looking for evidence .
"Vijesti" was unofficially informed yesterday that they still do not have precise data on whether the police were shot with a firearm or evidence of whether and with what weapon the UP officers were attacked that morning.
"Vijesti" has asked the Police Directorate on several occasions whether the police are investigating whether and who shot at the cars and UP officials, but the official answer has not yet arrived.
"Vijesti" also asked the Special State Prosecutor's Office for information on whether it is verifying the information that a group of protest participants against the enthronement of Metropolitan Joaniki fired firearms at cars that were being driven by members of the Police Administration that day. That answer from SDT did not arrive either.
Part of the citizens, who opposed the enthronement of Joaniki in the Cetinje monastery, formed a barricade on the Belvedere on the Podgorica-Cetinje road on September 4. Approaching the capital, from the direction of Podgorica and Budva, the crowd blocked it in order to prevent the arrival of Patriarch Porfiri and the clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the capital.
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