Defendant Miloš Medenica apologized to prosecutor Bojan Popović this morning, after which the latter dropped the criminal prosecution of the person reported for endangering security.
This was told to Vijesti by Popović's legal representative, lawyer Damir Lekić.
Lekić filed a criminal complaint against Medenica on March 19, after the son of the former president of the Supreme Court told Popović in the courtroom: "You cried, you will cry."
"Today at eight o'clock before the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, Bojan Popović was heard by the state prosecutor in that prosecutor's office, Ivan Bojanić, as a witness for the injured party in the criminal proceedings formed based on the criminal report that I, as his attorney, filed against the suspect Miloš Medenica due to the existence of a reasonable suspicion that, at the main trial hearing before the High Court in Podgorica, in which both are defendants, while presenting his defense, he addressed the words: '... you cried... you will cry again...', thereby committing the criminal offense of endangering security under Article 168 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro to his detriment," Lekić told Vijesti.
He added that Popović stated in his testimony today that at the main trial hearing before the Higher Court in Podgorica, the suspect Miloš Medenica did indeed address those threatening words to him, and that, both because of those words from the suspect, and because of other information that he and his brother Marko Popović had obtained, he felt fear and threatened for his life and safety, so he asked the State Prosecutor's Office for protection and to carefully assess what the words were and whether they contained the elements of the reported crime or any other criminal offense for which prosecution is being undertaken ex officio.
"He also pointed out that the place where the suspect, without any hesitation, publicly addressed these threatening words to him in front of everyone, was particularly striking, and that was in the Higher Court in Podgorica, at a hearing in session, even before the judges who were trying him for other more serious criminal offenses in that proceeding, which Bojan Popović assessed as a demonstration of the power of the suspect Miloš Medenica. After that, the suspect Miloš Medenica took the floor, and after the acting state prosecutor Ivan Bojanić allowed him to speak, he explained, or rather gave certain reasons why he addressed these words to the injured witness Bojan Popović, explaining what the words actually were, and that they were not words of threat. In addition, he spoke about the situation he was currently in, emphasizing in particular that neither Bojan, nor Marko Popović, nor any of the members of the Popović family, were in any danger from him, after which he publicly apologized to the injured witness Bojan Popović, and more than once, extending his hand to reconcile," said Lekić.
He pointed out that after that, and since those words of the suspect Miloš Medenica, or rather such reasons, were acceptable to the injured party witness Bojan Popović, "and especially these more spoken words that referred to the public apology, he accepted this public apology and Miloš Medenica's outstretched hand of reconciliation."
"After which he stated that he could not and did not want to prosecute anyone who publicly apologized to him in this way, especially for the words he had spoken. He also stated that such behavior by Miloš Medenica before the Higher Court in Podgorica was unacceptable, impolite and humiliating, but that he accepted the public apology, and that both Miloš and he had a lot of problems even without this procedure, and that he was actually not from this world, but from the world of business, finally stating categorically that, due to the public apology he had sent and accepted for the threatening words of Miloš Medenica, he did not feel fear for his life and safety, but that he felt insulted and humiliated. Finally, further stating that he was not joining the criminal prosecution against the suspect Miloš Medenica and that he was not filing a property-law claim against him," said Lekić.
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