The question is not where the statements disappeared to, since the defense never saw them, but rather the question is for the court to evaluate official, legally collected evidence, such as statements collected during the investigation, or rather, during the investigation, before the prosecutor.
This was told by Danilo Mandić's defense attorney, lawyer Miroja Jovanović, to Vijesti, explaining what he meant when he said after the suspect's detention, "you can't detain someone based on their word"...
The brother-in-law of state parliament speaker Andrija Mandić is accused of blocking the path of Darko Perović and Aris Turković in a parliamentary vehicle early on Saturday morning, April 19, and firing several shots at them...
During the hearing at the Higher State Prosecutor's Office (VDT), they denied that he shot at them and did not join the criminal prosecution of the thirty-five-year-old.
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"The information collected by the police in the case against my client Danilo Mandić, according to the Criminal Procedure Code, is not evidence, nor was it available to me. In my appeals against the detention and detention decisions, I only had the opportunity to interpret and analyze the claims of the prosecution and the court about these information. Such information is colloquially called statements, although according to the CPC in Montenegro they do not have probative value. What is valued by law is a statement given in the form of an official statement before the investigating authority, which is the prosecution. Therefore, the question is not where the statements disappeared, since the defense never saw them, but rather the question is for the court to evaluate official, legally collected evidence, such as statements collected during the investigation, or during the investigation, before the prosecutor," said Jovanović.
The lawyer reiterated that the information collected by the police was not available to him:
"I will repeat, the information collected by the police from any citizen, other than my client, was not available to me, but I was only interpreting what the court and the prosecution claim to have written in those information," he said.
Jovanović spoke out after Vijesti dana published that the defense attorney of the 35-year-old Podgorica resident had said a few days ago that Mandić was suspected only based on the testimony of the alleged injured party, who then failed to appear before the prosecutor for two days in a row. The injured party, however, later insisted during questioning that Mandić had not shot him, claiming that he had been threatened and blackmailed by the police to accuse the Podgorica resident of the wounding.
The police therefore announced that they would file criminal charges against Perović for false reporting.
At the same time, Perović said that he would not join the criminal prosecution against Mandić, "because there is no reason to," but he would join the prosecution against the person who shot him, if his identity is revealed.
Turković told the prosecutor that he did not remember a single detail of that evening because he had become ill from too much alcohol...
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