Kočan told how he killed, Burda how he set fire to the vehicle

Suspects for the murder of Radovan Marković and the removal of traces of that crime remain in custody

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One of the arrested persons being brought in for questioning, Photo: Boris Pejović
One of the arrested persons being brought in for questioning, Photo: Boris Pejović
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Haris Kočan he told the investigators how he took his life Radovan Marković, Vanja Burda how he set fire to the car in which the shooting took place, in order to destroy the traces.

This is stated by the Supreme Court in the decision to extend the detention of those alleged members of the Skaljar criminal clan.

According to information from the police, Marković was killed while he and the suspects were on the same task - trying to deal with members of the opposing Kavački clan, "Vijesti" was told earlier by the police.

It says that, as is well-founded suspicion, Kočan took the life of Marković on March 3 of this year in the town of Meterizi, while they were staying together in a passenger motor vehicle with Italian license plates.

It is explained that around 18.30:XNUMX p.m., the suspect fired several projectiles from an automatic rifle from the back seat while the car was in motion, and that he had previously taken the weapon from Burda...

"Two of which projectiles hit the injured party in the back area, causing him gunshot wounds, which resulted in the death of the injured party," the court decision states.

It is added that Burda was then in the passenger seat and that he held the machine in front of him, before passing it to Marković...

"And after, as it is reasonably suspected, the defendant KH fired projectiles in the direction of the victim, in order to help the defendant KH in concealing the means with which he committed the crime of murder, for which a prison sentence of over five years was prescribed, and the resulting traces of the same , sprinkled gasoline on the vehicle in which all three were previously, lit a flame with a lighter that caused a fire on the vehicle"...

The decision states that the well-founded suspicion that the defendants have committed criminal acts stems primarily from the defense of the defendant Kočan, "who admitted to committing the criminal acts charged against him and pleaded guilty, describing his actions in detail."

"Then in the defense of the defendant BV, who was in the vehicle in question at the time of the criminal act, on which occasion, as he states, he heard shots, after which he saw that the person driving the vehicle was injured. In his defense, the defendant BV also described sprinkling the car with gasoline and setting it on fire, after which he fled through the forest, where he hid, and the next day, when he went out into the street, he was stopped by police officers to whom he handed over his gun. explained that during his stay in the forest, where he was hiding, he injured himself on a thorn," the document says.

After the arrest of the suspects, the head of the Anti-Crime Sector, Lazar Šćepanović, told reporters that comprehensive investigations established that the deceased Marković, with the suspect Kočan and one other person, planned to commit a serious crime:

"To the detriment of one or more members of an opposing criminal group in a specific locality near the crime scene. During the implementation of the criminal plan by these persons and the realization of the serious criminal act, the suspect HK took the life of his co-perpetrator RM, while a third person set fire to the vehicle that was used in this criminal act and which was intended for the execution of another serious criminal act. "The third co-perpetrator destroyed the means of execution (firearms) of the planned serious crime by starting a fire," he said at the time.

Kočan fired several projectiles from an automatic rifle from the back seat while the car was in motion, and he had previously taken the weapon from Burda, according to court documents.

The witness filmed the ignition of the vehicle

One of the witnesses said that he was leaving Cetinje with another towards Podgorica, when that companion said to him in the town of Meterizi: "See these guys up there with masks and gloves"...

He says that he didn't see them then - because when he looked up, they had already passed by them in a car, but then he asked his friend to come back...

"After which, after 100 meters on the main road, they turned in the opposite direction, more precisely in the direction of Cetinje, and went to the place where I. said he saw those faces. Upon arriving at that place, there was only one male face unknown to him, and as he had previously prepared the camera on his phone to record the events, his attention was focused on recording that face, so he did not notice at that moment details related to his appearance, he had already seen it all by reviewing the video, but he saw that that face set fire to a gray car. After that, the police officers came, to whom he told that he had filmed the burning of a vehicle and a person and that one person had fled in the direction of the cemetery, after which they headed there, and he voluntarily forwarded the video to one of the police officers," the document says. court.

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