The trial of defendant Stefan Đukić, who is being tried in absentia along with other defendants, for the murder of Jovan Klisić and the wounding of Velizar Gardašević in Bar, continued today at the Higher Court in Podgorica, with the reading of written evidence.
The president of the special council, Judge Amir Đokaj, read several reports on the searches of computers, mobile phones and other devices carried out by officers of the Bar Police Department.
The court read out a certificate that a receiver with a hard disk was temporarily seized from the house of P. Đ. in Bar, from which a video recording from a video surveillance camera was extracted using a flash memory. This was for the date 20 August 2019, between 12:16 and XNUMX:XNUMX. The certificate was signed by D.Đ. The defense of the accused had no objections to the evidence presented.
Police officers from the Bar Police Department, acting on an order from the High Court, also temporarily seized video footage from a surveillance camera in a garage owned by a public company in Bar. This was on August 20, 2019, between 12:16 and XNUMX:XNUMX.
According to the indictment, Velizar Gardašević was wounded that day.
Video footage from surveillance cameras was seized from the optical store owned by E. Đ., the sporting goods store owned by RN, from the house of S. Đ., and KA, found in the building's maintenance room.
Attorney Bojana Franović Kovačević proposed to the court that the certificate on the temporarily seized mobile phone from Zorica Đurović be excluded from the case file as legally invalid evidence, because it did not state the grounds on which the seizure was made. She also pointed out that the certificate did not state which prosecutor was notified.
Special Prosecutor Vukas Radonjić opposed the proposal.
The court will later decide on the proposal of lawyer Franović Kovačević, the defense attorney of the accused Stefan Đukić, and Zorica Đurović, said Judge Đokaj.
The indictment stated that on November 2019, 15, the defendant Stefan M. Đukić, as a co-perpetrator, committed the criminal offense of aggravated murder, that is, that with 20 shots fired from an automatic rifle, he killed Klisić and wounded Velizar Gardašević, while his wife, mother and half-brother - Danijela B Mandić, Zorica Đ. Đurović, Vuk V. Lakićević, then Marko M. Vujadinović, Hasip B. Murić, Andrija B. Glavičanin and Bojan M. Vuksanović are accused of creating a criminal organization. Glavičanin and Lakićević were charged with illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances, while Đukić was also charged with the same criminal offense. The defendants Đukić, Lakićević and Vujadinović are accused of having attempted to kill Gardašević in Bar on August 2019, XNUMX, that is, of having committed the criminal offense of attempted murder as co-perpetrators.
The witnesses did not come.
The president of the special panel, judge Amir Đokaj, said that witness Velizar Gardašević, who had been duly summoned, did not appear at the scheduled main trial hearing. The return receipt showed that the summons was served to him through the Bar Police Department.
The court noted that witness Vuk Orlandić also failed to appear. The Bar police informed the court that they did not find him at his residential address. According to the state border crossing report, Orlandić left Montenegro on August 18, 2022.
Andrija narrowly escapes detention
The start of the trial was justifiably delayed due to attorney Damir Lekić, who informed the court that he would be 15 minutes late due to commitments in another case. This was stated in the courtroom today by the presiding judge, Amir Đokaj, when opening the main hearing. However, the defendant Andrija Glavičanin did not appear at the scheduled main hearing. The judge said that this was the second time that this defendant had not appeared for trial, stating that the first time had happened in July last year. Special prosecutor Vukas Radonjić objected to the possibility of the trial being postponed and reacted immediately.
"I propose that the accused Andrija Glavičanin be ordered to be detained, because he had previously been absent from the trial, after which an order for his forced arrival was issued. Today there are no legal prerequisites for holding the main trial...", prosecutor Radonjić finished his sentence. Then the court clerk said that Glavičanin had just arrived. Judge Đokaj allowed him to enter the courtroom, after which the trial began.
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