The Montenegrin police have not yet succeeded in arresting sixty-five-year-old Alija Balijagić, who they have been looking for since last night on suspicion of having killed Milanka and Jovan Madžgalj in the Bjelopolje village of Sokolac, but they claim that they are doing everything to deprive the suspect of the murder of the Madžgalj brother and sister.
And the Army of Montenegro joined the search for the suspected murderer of two people in the village of Sokolac in Bijelo Polje.
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The squad for special purposes, the elite special unit of the Croatian Armed Forces, went to the area where Balijagić is being searched for, said the newspaper's interlocutor.
The Police Administration (UP) officially announced that all their available forces are involved in the search for the killer.
On the ground are the police, intervention units, Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ), Special Police Unit (PJP), Border Police, elders from all UP Sectors who manage and coordinate search activities, drones, helicopters, and sniffer dogs.
"The police department is looking for person AB who can be linked to the execution of a double murder last night in the hamlet of Sokolac near Tomašev in Bijelo Polje. At this stage of the investigation, the police department, based on legal regulations and the appropriate approval of the competent prosecutor's office, is publishing a photo of the wanted person, and informs and appeals to the public, that if you notice this person, report the same information to the police by calling the number on duty of the Bijelo Polje Department of Security 067/184-844 or the toll-free number 122. Citizens their information I can report this person to the police anonymously by calling these numbers," the police statement reads.
They made a new appeal to the citizens of Bijelo Polje, especially the residents of the aforementioned village, to be careful, stay in their housing facilities and not allow unknown persons to enter.
The interlocutor from the top of the Police Directorate said that Balijagić stayed in the village of Sokolac yesterday, sat with one of the locals, and came to Madžgalje in the afternoon.
Allegedly, after the brother and sister saw off Balijagić, he returned and fired several shots at them from a rifle.
According to the same information, a few days ago, he stole the weapon from the house of a man from Bijelo Polje, which he had previously broken into.
The news was previously unofficially told by UP that the police are intensively searching for Balijagić.
"All available forces of the Police Administration, including helicopter units, are still involved in the search," informed UP News.
The news has learned unofficially that before the murder in Sokolac, Balijagić was also seen in Barice and Pisana jela.
Several residents of those villages confirmed to the News that they spent a sleepless night behind locked doors because of the danger from the outlaw Balijagić.
State Prosecutor Vanja Rakonjac, together with the authorized officers of the Bijelo Polje Police Department and the officers of the Forensic Center of Montenegro, carried out an investigation of the narrow and wider area of the scene, during which traces were excluded that will be the subject of an expert examination at the Forensic Center in Danilovgrad.
"An autopsy was ordered on the bodies of the deceased MM and JM in order to determine the circumstances under which death occurred. During the investigation, it was established that MM and JM were killed by the use of firearms," the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Bijelo Polje announced.
An officer of the Police Administration of the Regional Unit Bijelo Polje AS was injured after the vehicle of the intervention brigade overturned this morning, around 2.40:XNUMX a.m. in Sokolac during the search for Balijagić.
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The President of the Parliament of Montenegro and the leader of the New Serbian Democracy (NSD), Andrija Mandić, expressed his condolences to the families of those killed.
Locals in fear of Balijagić are looking for urgent measures for better protection, Vijesti was told.
The President of the Local Community (MZ) Tomaševo Vesko Gogić told Vijesti that since last night the residents of Sokolac, Čokrlija, Barica, Lijeska have been living in great fear of Balijagić, who had been in that area for ten days, but that the police had done nothing to find him.
"This is a terrible and unprecedented crime of murdering innocent, honest people, who previously fed and watered the killer. He moved around the villages for days and for ten days the police did nothing to find him. We were ordered not to leave our houses, no one he doesn't know how or when. And the victims of the crime were locked up, so he shot them through the window, which is unbelievable," said Gogić, adding that the consequences of the real danger to the residents, especially the children, are unfathomable, especially since it has already been ten days. seen with a rifle and retinue, presenting himself as a hunter who had lost his dogs.
Local resident Dragan Grba also confirmed that neighbors reported Balijagić moving around those villages, but that the police did not react.
"Balijagić was on the move for several days and Milija Zejak reported him three days ago, but no one responded. Last night, when you couldn't see a finger in front of your eye, they flew over with a helicopter, and today they are gone," said Grba.
Minister of the Interior Danilo Šaranović visited the scene of the crime today.
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