Today, the Basic Court in Podgorica postponed the trial for the police torture of Marko Boljević for the sixth time, waiting for the findings of the medical board, which has not even been formed. It is unacceptable that four full years of police torture do not even reach a first-instance verdict, according to the statement of the Action for Human Rights (HRA).
According to them, police inspectors Danilo Grbović, Dalibor Ljekočević, Bojan Vujačić, Ivan Peruničić and Nemanja Vujošević were accused of extorting a statement with severe violence from Marko Boljević in the investigation of the "bomb attacks" on May 25, 2020.
"They were previously suspended with a delay of 9 months due to the failure of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Filip Adžić, to act in a timely manner in accordance with the law. The trial of the inspectors has been postponed for half a year due to the absence of an opinion of the Forensic Medical Committee of the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica on the cause-and-effect relationship between of the stress experienced by the victim and the occurrence of his permanent illness, and the exact time of occurrence of physical injuries. The opinion was requested on November 30, 2023," the statement reads.
Due to the long delay, as they state, they turned to the Faculty of Medicine a month ago with a request for access to information on the composition and work of the Forensic Medicine Committee.
"In the meantime, we were informed that in 2024 there was no expert opinion by this committee, because the determination of its new convening is in progress, "which will be proposed at one of the next sessions of the Council". The fact that the committee during the past six months has not existed without the Court being informed about it, indicates serious problems in communication between state institutions, which affect the timely handling of cases and the realization of justice is to request that expert opinion from another expert body from the region, which would have already done it by now. It is still uncertain when this trial will be able to end," he pointed out.
They emphasized that the police inspectors are accused by the State Prosecutor's Office of torturing Boljević with electric shockers in May 2024, hitting him with boxing gloves, baseball bats and fists in the upper part of his body and on the soles of his feet, threatening him with murder and pointing a gun at his head, strangled him, humiliated him, wrote a farewell letter to his family and threatened to torture and kill his family, as well as his girlfriend, in order to force him to give a false statement accusing Jovan Grujičić and Benjamin Mugoša of planting the explosives.
"Grujičić and Mugoša also suffered police torture. Police inspector Dalibor Ljekočević was accused of extorting a statement from Mugoša, while no one is still accused of torturing Grujičić," they concluded.
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