M75 hand grenade, most likely attached to a belt Mladen Bulatović, was activated when that forty-year-old man, around 11.35:XNUMX a.m., took a step towards the exit door of the Basic Court in Podgorica a few seconds after entering that building.
Bulatović was killed on the spot - the bomb blew up his chest and abdomen.
Five people were injured in the explosion, of whom Marija Radulović (42) suffered serious injuries, and due to stress, four others sought help at the Emergency Center.
Among the injured is a lawyer Branimir Vukcevic (44)
According to Vijesti, the doctors of the Emergency Center yesterday treated i Zdenka Ivanovic (57) Katarina Jović Martinović, Predrag Vlahović (58) Ljiljan Martinović (48) Martin Suškavčević (57) and Ivan Ljumović (40)
The interlocutor of Vijesti explained that they were all in the hall, between the front door and the court office.
Director of the Clinical Center of Montenegro, dr Ljiljana Radulovic, she explained that five patients have physical injuries, while the others have a stress reaction, i.e. shock.
She also said that an emergency surgical intervention was performed on one patient, but that her condition was stable after that.
"For other patients, we hope that they will pass only with conservative treatment and that they will not require further surgical treatment. All four patients who are currently in the Clinical Center have stable vital parameters," she told reporters yesterday.
President of the Bar Association, Zdravko Begović, said that his colleague Vukčević suffered injuries in the leg and neck area, but that his life was not in danger.
"He is in a terrible psychological trauma, I believe that it will pass. Two court workers and three citizens were also injured," he told reporters in front of KCCG.
They determine the motive
Podgorica police inspectors and forensic experts from Danilovgrad spent hours yesterday, on the orders of the senior prosecutor Snežane Sišević, excluded traces from the scene.
Their main challenge, however, is to determine what or who made Bulatović activate the bomb at the door of the building where the Basic Court and Basic Prosecutor's Office Podgorica are located.
The interlocutor from the Police Administration said that the man from Podgorica quit his job at a car rental agency the day before the tragedy.
The acting prosecutor, Snežana Šišević, after completing the investigation with members of the Podgorica police and forensic experts from Danilovgrad, told reporters that she could not speak about the motive for now.
"For now, we cannot talk about the motive. "A number of measures and actions are being taken in order to determine the motive of this event," Šišević said.
Before her, she was the chief of the Criminal Police station for the suppression of blood crimes and domestic violence Srdjan Korac said that the police received a notification at 11.35:XNUMX a.m. that an explosive device had been activated in the Basic Court building in Podgorica and that there were injuries.
"We found that MB (40) who activated the explosive device was killed. We have five more injured persons who are being treated at the Clinical Center," said Korać.
Convicted multiple times
That forty-year-old divorced his wife in 2017, and he had a court obligation to pay child support.
"We have information that he lived very badly, that he sold things from the house in order to get money", said the interlocutor from UP.
According to the criminal records, he was convicted several times. In 2018, he was sentenced to three years and two months in prison for drug smuggling in the Bjelo Polje High Court. In the Basic Court in Podgorica in 2009, he was fined for endangering security, and a year earlier in the same court he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for falsifying a document. In December 2018, he was sentenced to 35 days in prison for non-payment of alimony.
The Basic Court in Podgorica announced yesterday that Bulatović was convicted of the same crime in the middle of last year. According to their statements, the court ordered him to repay the failure to provide support to his child and ex-wife with a sentence of community service.
"The case formed for the implementation of that sentence was sent to the Ministry of Justice, whose jurisdiction it is from December 2022," they explained.
They specified that Bulatović did not have a scheduled hearing yesterday, nor was he sent an invitation to come to that building.
Political appeals after the tragedy
After the tragedy in the Podgorica Basic Court and Prosecutor's Office building, almost all political parties, as well as numerous officials, spoke out.
The president of the country, Milo Đukanović, said that this tragic event deeply disturbs and worries the entire society.
He appealed to the competent authorities to undertake activities aimed at the prevention of violence and the security of state institutions.
The Judicial Council appealed that the issue of safety of all employees and parties in the courts be finally resolved in an adequate and sustainable manner.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Filip Adžić, said that in order to increase security, that department will continue intensive protection and demand stricter controls and stronger security measures.
He said that the state will do everything to ensure the safety of all citizens and institutions, especially those in charge of administering justice.
Director of the Police Administration, Zoran Brđanin, said that the policemen would have searched Bulatović if he had reached them.
He told RTCG that in this case it is questionable whether it would have been enough if there had been a security service with all the means and equipment, because it happened at the very entrance, before the arrival of the control where the police officers were.
Brđanin emphasized that the police have been put in a situation where they have been providing conditions for safe work in courtrooms for several years, even though there are no legal requirements for this.
And while the DPS announced that yesterday's event was a "terrible warning that the safety of every citizen in every place in this country can be threatened", Social Democrat MP Boris Mugoša said that it was not the time to score political points.
"The essence is to finally solve the evident problem, in such a way as to ensure adequate protection of the facilities of the judiciary and prosecution. Regarding responsibility - it cannot be anyone's...", Mugoša wrote on Twitter.
Better protection of the courts was also demanded from the Democratic Front, the Social Democrats and Democratic official Momo Koprivica.
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