The trial of five police inspectors, Danilo Grbović, Dalibor Ljekočević, Bojan Vujačić, Ivan Peruničić and Nemanja Vujošević, who were accused of extorting a statement with severe violence from Marko Boljević in the investigation of the "bomb attacks", continued before the Basic Court in Podgorica on May 25, 2020. years.
Miloš Vučinić, former head of the Security Department of the Criminal Police in CB Podgorica, who now serves as a police liaison officer at the Embassy of Montenegro in Slovenia, testified.
Vučinić, as reported by Action for Human Rights (HRA), stated that at the time of the event in question, as the chief, he communicated directly and hierarchically with the head of the Criminal Police Station for the Suppression of Blood Offenses and Domestic Violence in the Podgorica Security Center, Srđan Korać.
As according to the indictment, after the torture, a policeman drove Boljević in an official vehicle to the ODT building in Podgorica, where the now-accused police officers with phantom guns were in the vehicle 'Opel Astra', who threatened him that they would be waiting for him there, the Court was interested in Vučinić made a special statement about it.
"In May 2020, I drove a black 'Opel Astra' and I responsibly rule out any possibility that anyone else used it during that period. I am a slave to the procedure and I am very 'difficult' when it comes to work. I am never not even the inspectors were driving, let alone someone else like the defendants or witnesses," said Vučinić, HRA reported.
He also ruled out the possibility that on May 25, 2020, he was in front of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, although the injured party, Boljević, claimed that someone was waiting for him there in a black Opel Astra.
"I have never seen Marko Boljević present here in my life," stated Vučinić, and Boljević also confirmed this.
The injured party's attorney, lawyer Novica Milošević, asked the witness if it is common for as many as four police officers to leave one person, who is supposed to give a statement in the capacity of a citizen, especially considering the lack of staff that exists in CB Podgorica? Vucinic replied:
"If the lack of personnel exists today, it does not mean that it existed in 2020. There is no procedure related to the number of police officers who should go to pick up any person, so I don't see anything unusual here either."
When asked by the court, Vučinić stated that he believes that police officers can judge for themselves whether to wear phantoms or not. He never saw them interrogate anyone in their offices with phantoms, but he did not rule out the possibility that during the corona (which was current in May 2020) wore, since they did not have masks that would protect them from the virus.
In the continuation of the evidentiary proceedings, judge Larisa Mijušković Stamatović rejected the request of the prosecutor Romina Vlahović to hear the injured party Boljević again about the circumstances of the testimony of the police officer Radoman Vujičić.
Vujičić previously stated that he remembers how on May 25, 2020, around 19 p.m., he took Boljević's written statement from Srđan Korać, which he subsequently submitted to the prosecution, and that that evening he saw Boljević sitting alone in front of the office of the Basic State Prosecutor Ivana Vuksanović. However, he could not remember any other details, including whether he delivered the files in question to the registry office or handed them over to the prosecutor.
Since Boljević claimed that he was in the prosecution with one police officer, and not alone, the prosecutor considered it necessary that he be heard again on those circumstances. The request was rejected, because a certain period of time had passed since Vujičić's testimony, which could have given the injured party room to adapt his supplementary testimony to the current situation in the case.
For this reason, the prosecutor then requested that information be obtained from CB Podgorica through official channels as to who actually delivered Boljević's statement to the prosecution that evening, and the court accepted that request.
"The proposal of the injured party's attorney to present as evidence i the findings of foreign experts on the medical examination of Marko Boljević's injuries. The court considered that this evidence could not be implemented because it was not based on the order of the domestic court or the prosecutor's office, which would contain clear instructions on what needs to be expertized. These are top medical experts, members of the Independent forensic expert group - IFEG, who examined thousands of victims of torture around the world, and who were hired for the purposes of this case by HRA, with the support of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. Three medical experts concluded that the hematomas, scrapes, and minor scratches were randomly distributed throughout Boljević's body, including his neck, chest, arms, and legs, and that the pain and suffering present were highly consistent with his allegations of being beaten with feet, fists, and baseball bats. during the deprivation of liberty on May 25, 2020. In addition, the existence of post-traumatic stress syndrome was also established, as a consequence of the police torture suffered," the HRA statement reads.
In the case, it is added, there is a report by a domestic expert on the injuries inflicted on Marko Boljević, made on the order of the competent state prosecutor.
"And the domestic expert confirmed that the injuries could have occurred at the time and in the manner as reported by Boljević. However, the findings of the international experts are more detailed, they are aligned with the methodology of the Istanbul Protocol of the UN and contain the findings of a psychiatric expert with exceptional experience in working with victims of torture in many Since the Court could not undoubtedly establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the stress suffered and the onset of a permanent disease damaged in the form of psoriasis, and the exact time of injury from the findings of the local expert, at yesterday's hearing it requested the opinion of the Commission of the Forensic Medicine Board of the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica," announced HRA.
The continuation of the trial is scheduled for December 29.
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