After our colleague from Serbia, Luka Stojaković, publicly shared his experience with the police in Montenegro, the Police Administration (UP) did not provide clear answers to the allegations, avoiding explaining the most important issues in this case, the informal student group "Where to Tomorrow?" announced today.
"While the routine checks are legitimate, the very attitude of police officers towards Stojaković and the comments he received cast doubt on the true intentions behind this case. What has not been explained to the public is the exact reason why Stojaković was not allowed to take a blood test. Also, the UP's response does not provide an explanation for the full 24-hour detention before being taken to the Minor Offences Court," the statement points out.
"Where Are You Going Tomorrow?" added that since the beginning of the student blockades in Serbia, Luka Stojaković and his brother Lazar have been targeted by regime media and tabloids, intimidated by the Security Information Agency (BIA), and that their personal data and passport photos have been published on the front pages.
"We received the first information about this case from the regime media in Serbia, which used it to continue the campaign against students at the blockades. This is not the first time that information from the Police Directorate has leaked to the media in Serbia, as the same thing happened after Medovina, the Balijagić case, the January 1 crime, but also the recent leak of a farewell video of a citizen who is suspected of committing suicide," the statement reads.
"Where Tomorrow?" said that due to the, to say the least, suspicious attitude of the police in this case, they demand that the public know:
- Why wasn't a blood test done?
- Why was our colleague detained for a full 24 hours before being taken to the Minor Offences Court?
- How did this information reach the tabloids in Serbia so quickly?
- And most importantly, who gave the order to treat Luka Stojaković this way?
"We hope that the Police Administration will actually provide answers to the Council for Citizen Control of Police Work regarding this case, without delay and without the label 'internal'. We remind you that regarding the crime in Cetinje, the Police Administration submitted its answers to the Council after 18 days, only after public statements regarding this situation by HRA - Human Rights Action and the Center for Women's Rights, and then by the Council itself. The answers arrived a few hours after these statements, in the evening hours and with the label 'internal', after which the Council informed the public that this response from the Police Administration did not contain new information about the crime," reads a statement by the informal student group "Where to Tomorrow?".
Luka Stojaković, a student at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) at the University of Belgrade, announced yesterday that he was arrested in Montenegro, that he spent 24 hours in solitary confinement, and that police officers told him that his arrest was ordered from the top.
According to several media reports, Stojaković was arrested in Montenegro on February 19th.
The Police Directorate today called Stojaković's claims untrue and misleading.
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Prime Minister of Montenegro Milojko Spajić announced last night that he was sorry that Stojaković had experienced an unpleasant experience in Montenegro.
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He also announced at the time that he would task Interior Minister Danilo Šaranović with once again examining the police's actions in this specific case, especially in the area of testing for psychoactive substances.
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