None of the 13 police officers reported for abusing Podgorica residents Jovan Grujičić will not be held accountable for that, because the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica assessed that they did not torture the legally acquitted person for the bomb attacks on the house of the former secret agent Duško Golubović and the "Grand" bar.
Such a decision was made by the prosecutor Maja Knezevic, which dropped the criminal charges after nearly two years of investigation Budimir Grujičić with which he accused several police officers of abusing his son Jovan.
"I am informing you that I dismissed the criminal complaint filed against me Miloš Vučinić, Srdjan Korac, Vukašin Leković, Dalibor Ljekočević, Bojan Vujacic, Nemanja Vujošević, Radomana Vujičić, Miodrag Jovović, Ivan Peruničić i Ljubisav Striković for the criminal offense of torture...and against Danilo Krgović, Matija Kasalica i Aleksandre Knežević due to the criminal offense of violation of the inviolability of the apartment, because there is no reasonable suspicion that they have committed the reported offense, nor any other criminal offense that is prosecuted ex officio", it is written in the decision delivered to the Grujičićs and their legal representative, a lawyer Damir Lekić.
The former head of the Podgorica criminal police, Vučinić, claimed before the prosecutor that he acted lawfully towards Grujicić and that he did not deny him anything that was due to him by law. His colleague Korać pointed out that no one forced Grujičić to incriminate himself for the bombings, but that the man from Podgorica told them everything himself, even what he was not asked: "Grujičić admitted to committing these two crimes, as well as several others. ..he told the police inspectors: 'Anytime you see a face with a cap and a scarf on the video, that's me,'" Korać told the prosecutor.
The policemen denied guilt
Korać and Vučinić denied guilt at the hearing. The allegations of the criminal complaint were also denied by the other questioned police officers, and even Jovan Grujičić, who testified as a witness, did not recognize any of them as his torturer from the premises of the Podgorica police.
"Jovan Grujičić, who was present at the hearing of all the suspects, stated that he had not seen any of the mentioned persons before, that he did not know them and that he was 26% sure that they were not the persons who were reported to him on May 2020, XNUMX, during the collection of information from him, in in the premises of the Podgorica Security Center, inflicted injuries, that is, inflicted severe pain and suffering in order to get a confession from him," the decision on the dismissal of the criminal complaint reads.
Prosecutor Knežević explained that, while verifying the allegations of the criminal complaint filed by Budimir Grujicić on June 4, 2020, she heard Vučinić, Korać, Leković, Ljekočević, Vujačić, Vujošević, Vujičić, Jovović, Peruničić, Kasalica and Knežević, obtained medical documentation, heard the other witnesses...
There was still torture
She found, however, that someone had tortured the acquitted man for the bomb attacks on the house of police officer Golubović and the "Grand" bar, so now they will be looking for unknown police officers.
"As it follows from all the collected evidence that on May 26, 2020, Jovan Grujičić was brought to the premises of the Podgorica Security Center, from the Kotor Special Hospital where he was previously receiving treatment, and that reports were collected from him by the police officials who, on that occasion, in order to obtain an appropriate acknowledgment or notification from him, put pressure on him and on that occasion inflicted certain physical injuries on him, which was established by the findings and opinions of medical experts. As it is obvious after the evidence that it was not done by the reported persons, it is necessary to transfer the case files to the KTN register against unknown persons for the criminal offense of torture", explained Knežević.
On May 25, 2020, masked policemen arrested Grujičić at the Special Hospital for Psychiatry in Kotor, where he was undergoing treatment. The day after his arrest, he was remanded in custody. He remained behind bars until November 10 of the same year, when the investigating judge ordered that he be released immediately.
He was legally acquitted of the charges for the bombings, because the court, among other things, assessed that his confession was coerced by police torture.
In the criminal report filed by his father, it is written, among other things, that the police officers first "abducted him from the hospital" and then left him without therapy, and that in the Podgorica Security Center they hit him with a baseball bat on his kidneys, lower back and feet, but also tortured him. electric shockers on the genitals, eyelids...
In the criminal complaint filed against Vučinić, Korać and their colleagues, he also claimed that a policeman rode Jovan:
"At the same time making videos of that riding and then threatening Jovan that he will publish it on social networks, so that everyone can see what kind of mangrop Jovan is".
Lekić: The leaders of the beatings had to be prosecuted
Grujicic's legal representative, lawyer Damir Lekic, announced that he will file a complaint against the prosecution's decision not to prosecute any of the reported police officers:
"The prosecutor decided to continue the proceedings on that application, with the fact that she transferred the case to the KTN registry, that is, the case is now being conducted against unknown perpetrators. It is illogical that, after she established that some police officers, in order to get a confession from him, put pressure on Grujičić and inflicted serious physical injuries on him, she did not prosecute even the immediate superiors of the perpetrators, who, obviously, covered up the abuse all along." said Lekic.
He pointed out that he believes that justice will be served in that case, but also reminded that the delay represents an ineffective investigation and violates the international standard against torture.
"There is much that is illogical in this decision, because it is evident which of the policemen was on the schedule of work and duties that day and who was undertaking official actions according to Jovan, and especially with the fact that I am a clear fact that emerges from the medical documentation and findings and opinions - that during that period he was tortured and abused, and he was only in the police, nowhere else," said Lekić.
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