Police Inspector of the Kotor Security Department Slobodan Vulanović will have to spend four months under house arrest, after the Podgorica High Court overturned the decision of the Kotor Basic Court, which sentenced him conditionally for abuse.
This was confirmed by the spokesperson of the Basic Court in Kotor, a judge, to "Vijesta". Veljko Bulatović.
Vulanović was accused of abuse SM two years ago in his office at the Kotor police, when, he writes, after being detained, he gave him more than 30 blows on the head and body.
Last year in May, by the judge's decision Momirka Tešić, he was sentenced to a suspended sentence, but the local prosecutor's office appealed the verdict. The higher court then changed the decision to a prison sentence, which he will serve in his apartment.
Judge Bulatović, in a written reply to "News", clarified that proceedings were conducted before the Basic Court in Kotor against the accused police inspector OB Kotor SV, for the criminal offense - abuse (art. 166a paragraph 2 in connection with paragraph 1 in connection with Article 23 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro).
"On May 18, 2022, the defendant SV was given a suspended sentence of 30 days in prison, and at the same time it was determined that the sentence will not be carried out unless the defendant commits a new criminal offense within one year from the date of the final verdict," said Bulatović. .
As he added, acting on the appeal of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor, the High Court in Podgorica overturned the verdict of the Basic Court in Kotor, and on February 6 of this year it issued a verdict, sentencing SV to four months in prison: "With by the fact that at the same time it was determined that this sentence will be carried out by the defendant serving it in the premises where he lives".
"The defendant, who has been sentenced to prison in the living quarters, may not leave the premises where he lives, except in cases prescribed by the law governing the execution of criminal sanctions. "If the convicted person voluntarily leaves the premises where he lives once for more than six hours or twice for up to six hours, the court will order that he serve the remainder of his prison sentence in the Institute for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions", stated Bulatović in his answer.
Vulanović is accused of abusing S. M, in the middle of February 2021, in his office, with an as yet unidentified colleague. who was previously arrested for attacking the police.
The Kotor Prosecutor's Office filed the indictment after the case was reported by the injured party, stating that his human dignity was insulted - when he was humiliated and beaten in the police station.
It all happened on February 15, after SM was brought to the police station in the evening for questioning on suspicion of having committed a criminal offense - an attack on an official in the performance of official duties.
It is said that he was brought to the office of Vulanović, who then started shouting at him in the presence of his colleagues, accusing him of hitting the policemen.
As SM later told, Vulanović and another official hit him at least 30 times in the head and body area, threatening him and cursing him, saying that they would insult him and that they would "intrude on his life because Kotor is theirs" city".
Vulanović, as stated in the indictment, at one point grabbed SM by the shirt, lifted him from the chair and threw him to the floor, and then kicked him in the stomach area.
After he was released from the police station, SM filed a criminal complaint against the police inspector, along with medically confirmed injuries.
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