Alija Balijagić, suspected of killing Milanka and Jovan Madžgalje last night in the village of Sokolac in Bijelo Polje, was convicted in 2016 for the rape of a seventy-five-year-old woman in the High Court in Bijelo Polje.
During the trial, he claimed that he did not commit the crime he was accused of and said that it was a set-up.
According to the indictment, he raped an old woman on October 30, 2015 at around 19 pm in a suburban settlement in Bijelo Polje.
It is alleged that he entered her house, pushed her out of the hallway, grabbed her by the shoulders and told her to take off her clothes.
"Since the old woman resisted and punched him in the face, he hit her in the face with a flashlight and then threatened to take off her clothes... Threatening to kill her otherwise," the verdict states.
The police were looking for Balijagić after an old woman reported that he had raped him, but he was not immediately arrested because the results of the expert examination were awaited.
He was arrested at the end of November 2015 for the second offense of aggravated theft and illegal possession of weapons.
Then he stole a weapon from a house, the police announced that he had committed several thefts in his native village, Oklad and Pavino Polje.
When the police approached to arrest him, he fired one bullet from the rifle into the air.
Balijagić defended himself in the investigation that he did not rob anyone and that he did not even leave the house.
Making excuses for the shot, he said that the gun went off by accident.
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Balijagić is remembered in these areas as a bandit who broke away into the forests, and because of numerous robberies and bandit thefts and other acts, he spent about two decades in prison.
At the end of the 1980s, he was suspected of several thefts in the surrounding villages, after he moved to neighboring Serbia.
Before he fell into the hands of the anti-terrorist unit of the MUP of Montenegro in 2003, Balijagić committed a series of thefts and robberies in the villages of Prijepolje, Priboj and Čajetina municipalities, near the villages of Novovaro, breaking into elderly households, hiding from pursuit and fear and trembling in the mountain villages.
In May of last year, he was beaten by three neighbors, causing serious physical injuries, for which proceedings are still ongoing in the Basic Court.
Balijagić then claimed that he had calmed down, that his brothers and sisters, who live abroad, help him financially, and that he wants to lead a peaceful and honest life, even though he feels rejected by society.
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