The trial of the defendants for the murders of Nemanja Prelević (28) and Danil Peković (20) in Veruša on October 17, 2020, for which Marko Zekić and eight other persons were charged, was held today in the High Court in Podgorica.
The president of the special council, Vesna Kovačević, rejected the evidence proposal of the defense to reconstruct the shooting in Berane. The judge said that this leads to a delay in the proceedings.
According to the indictment, on November 18, 2021, around 22 p.m. near the General Hospital in Berane, Marko Zekić, from a vehicle driven by Miomir Đukić, shot the brothers Ismet and Kenan Sujković and Mirza Kastrat, who were in the vehicle at the time "trade wind".
The defendant, Miomir Đukić, protested and said that it was unbelievable that this evidentiary proposal was rejected. He believes that the goal of the court is not to determine who committed the crime, but to convict them without any evidence.
Đukić canceled the power of attorney to his defense attorneys for the reason that he was not allowed to defend himself properly, and that his lawyers were also not allowed to defend him according to the law.
The main hearing was adjourned until December 4, so that the court could appoint him an ex officio defense attorney.
At one of the previous hearings of the main trial, lawyer Stefan Jovanović, Miomir Đukić's defense attorney, proposed to the court that a reconstruction be carried out, because the defendants Zekić and Miomir Đukić were in a completely different place. He reminded that in the case files there is a video from the surveillance camera of the gas station at the exit from Beran towards Rožaje, three kilometers away from the scene where the Sujković brothers were shot. The defense pointed out that the video clearly shows that Zekić and M. Đukić were filmed at that gas station practically at the time when the crime was committed. The defense emphasizes that the video shows that Zekić and Đukić stayed for a long period of time. According to the defense, they could not have committed the crime.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica filed an indictment against the eight-member criminal organization of the accused Marko Zekić, who is on the run.
In addition to Zekić, Miomir Đukić, Dragan Biletić, Vasilije Đukić, Mirčeta Mihailović, Nenad Miličić, Goran Milašinović, Branislav Ivanović and Dragan Tarić are also accused.
According to the collected evidence, Marko Zekić, Đukić and Mihailović killed Prelević and Peković together on October 17, 2020, in the town of Uvač, with premeditation and prior agreement.
Milašinović, Biletić, Ivanović and Miličić assisted in the serious murder of two Podgorica residents by deliberately creating conditions and removing obstacles. The task of part of the group was to monitor the movement of Prelević and Peković in order to determine the most favorable place and time for their liquidation.
"After they found out that the targets would be in Prelević's house in the town of Uvač on October 17, they communicated that information to Zekić, Đukić and Mirčeta Mihailović, who went to Veruša," the indictment reads. It is added that Mirčeta Mihailović handed over an automatic rifle and a pistol to Zekić and Đukić, who, after a brief discussion at the door of the cottage, killed Prelević by firing several projectiles into his head and upper body. After killing Prelević, they entered the cottage and killed Peković. Transcripts of the Sky application used by members of this criminal organization revealed that the murder of Prelevic and Pekovic was planned several months earlier. Marko Zekić from Beran had a physical confrontation with Nemanja Prelević in a bar in Podgorica, after which he made the decision to kill him, so he informed the other members of the criminal organization he founded, among other things, the indictment states.
In the explanation of the indictment, it is written that, according to evidence from France, Zekić informed the other defendants about the conflict he had in a Podgorica bar, through the Sky application, and told them that he had made the decision to kill Prelevic.
"From further communications from August 05.08.2020, XNUMX, Zekić announces that he made the decision to take the life of Nemanja Prelevic precisely because of the fight he had with him and with Vladimir Bajčeta and Marinka Banović in the restaurant. In those messages, Zekić states that he is with had a gun that he had left and at the same time inquires with other defendants where Prelevic lives, what vehicle he drives, and where his house is located, i.e. what is the street where the victim's house is located," the indictment explains.
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