Negative trends do not bypass Ulcinj: Imported crime undermines security?

The Police Directorate has not responded for days to questions about whether the local security department has enough police officers and inspectors to respond to the challenge and whether any major investments in the city are being made by security-interested individuals.

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Authorities do not answer the question of whether everything is under control: Ulcinj, Photo: Shutterstock
Authorities do not answer the question of whether everything is under control: Ulcinj, Photo: Shutterstock
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A murder, two victims and three seriously injured in traffic accidents, three wounded in bloody clashes and one killed on a construction site, is the tragic balance of events in the last two and a half months in Ulcinj, a city considered one of the most peaceful and safest destinations in the country.

In addition to all this, locals and tourists are witnessing attacks on traffic and municipal police officers, public promotion of prostitution, and construction with dubious capital and investors...

Wounding of a local resident and a former member of the Police Directorate MP at the end of June, who was attacked and stabbed by foreign nationals, who then fled in an unknown direction, had to turn on the red light because it represented the culmination of bloody clashes in the city, which had begun about twenty days earlier.

An Azerbaijani citizen from Dzavlje died at the Clinical Center in Podgorica from injuries sustained in one of those clashes, while his compatriot was seriously wounded.

Of the 12 actors involved in the bloody clashes, only the wounded MP is a local. The other 11 participants are not from Ulcinj, which fuels suspicions that certain criminal structures from the region and Europe are using the season and crowds to gain illegal profits in an attempt to strengthen their positions in the city with its dynamically growing construction and the influx of capital of dubious origin.

A senior government source for "Vijesti" recently confirmed that business and criminal circles from Serbia, close to the government there, have already infiltrated the Montenegrin coast, including Ulcinj, where they are allegedly trying to launder a large amount of money.

Although the Ulcinj police officers promptly brought almost all the participants in the criminal clashes to justice, the UP "Vijesti" did not receive a comment on all of this, nor did it answer the question of whether the security situation in the city is under control. We also asked them whether the Ulcinj Police Department has enough police officers and inspectors to meet the challenge and whether any major investments in the city are being carried out by unscrupulous individuals? The questions were duly submitted to the UP's email address on June 20.

President of the Municipality of Ulcinj Genzi Nimanbeg He said that his intention is to have more members of the Police Department in the city during the season.

"Primarily due to the normal and safe flow of traffic. But, in the past period, we have also had several serious criminal incidents, which we in Ulcinj are not used to," Nimanbegu told "Vijesti".

In the last two and a half months, traffic accidents on the Ulcinj - Ada road have claimed two young lives, a pedestrian was seriously injured in the city and is still in the Podgorica Clinical Center with life-threatening injuries, a young man from Vladimir died on a construction site, a traffic police patrol was attacked in Štoj and a municipal police officer in the city... At the same time, a young man was seriously injured in a scooter accident on Bojana.

In addition to all this, the interlocutors of "Vijesti" say that in the new part of the city, in newly built apartments in Ulcinjsko Polje, prostitution is allegedly flourishing, that some massage advertisements are also a front for the oldest craft, that construction is progressing with dubious capital and investors, that all of this also brings corruption and brings unrest and unrest to citizens.

"It is true that along with the tourists, thieves, criminals, drug dealers and illegal immigrants have arrived, just like in all other cities, and it is normal to expect that the crime rate will be higher and that we will have more accidents on the roads and at sea. But the season has hardly even started yet. However, we believe that the police can ensure that all citizens feel safe in the coming period," said one of our interlocutors.

Also, the residents of Štoje recently sent a petition to the Police Directorate, Department for Road Traffic Safety in Podgorica, requesting that the issue of safety on the busy road that passes through their settlement be resolved as soon as possible.

Chronology

- Ulcinj resident AM (1993) died on April 24 in a traffic accident, which occurred at 1:23 am on the regional road Ulcinj - Ada Bojana, when two cars collided in the town of Štoj.

- A young man from Ulcinj SH was seriously injured on May 2 in an accident shortly before 17 p.m. on Bojana, in Ulcinj. He was riding a scooter and, for reasons currently unknown, lost control of the vehicle and crashed directly into the terrace of a building. The Maritime Safety and Port Management Authority announced that the scooter driver was sent to the Clinical Center of Montenegro.

- Ulcinj resident I. Lj. was seriously injured in a traffic accident on May 17, near the “Kalamper” gas station, at around 7.30:XNUMX a.m. He was hit by a “Volkswagen” with Bar license plates while crossing the street. After the accident, the young man was urgently transferred to the Clinical Center of Montenegro in Podgorica, where he remains hospitalized.

- Ulcinj resident EK (20) died from injuries sustained on May 24th at a construction site. The accident occurred around 14 p.m.

- In the evening hours of June 6, in a clash in an apartment in Ulcinjsko Polje, Azerbaijani citizens were seriously wounded. Dž. A. (39) and AM (34). Dž. A. (39) succumbed to his injuries a few days later at the Clinical Center in Podgorica. After the bloody confrontation, the then unknown perpetrators quickly left the scene, but the police quickly tracked them down and arrested them the next morning. The Police Directorate announced at the time that three people from Novi Pazar in Serbia, EC (21) TM (18) and AK (20) were arrested on suspicion of attempting to kill two Azerbaijani citizens with a knife on the night of June 6. The reason for the fight was allegedly a misunderstanding regarding solicitation for prostitution, which escalated into an argument and later into a physical fight with fatal consequences.

- In Donji Štoj, two weeks later, at around 16.00:XNUMX p.m., three young men from Rožaje were in front of a restaurant. AM(19) JD (20) and AF (23) physically attacked a fellow citizen EM (18), an employee of that facility, and stabbed him in the back with a knife. He was given medical attention, while the perpetrators of this incident fled the scene in an unknown direction, but AM (19) and JD (20) were later arrested in Bar. AF (23), was acquitted of suspicion of participating in the crime. The prosecutor at the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica was informed of the incident and qualified the crime as attempted murder. Later, the crime was reclassified as a minor offense and forwarded to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj for further proceedings.

- Two days later, on June 22nd, there was an attack on officials in the performance of their duties. A. M. (29) from Rožaje, after the patrol stopped him and testing determined that he was under the influence of psychoactive substances, he first resisted arrest and then physically attacked the traffic patrol officers. After that, he ran away towards a beach on Velika plaža, where he was lost without trace. After a ten-day search, Rožaje was handcuffed on Mala plaža.

- A twenty-year-old girl died from injuries sustained in a serious traffic accident that occurred in the early morning hours of June 23rd near the "Imperial" hotel on the Ulcinj - Ada road. DV from Kotor. A local man also suffered serious, life-threatening injuries. YOU (31), who was with her in a Porsche with Ulcinj license plates.

- On Saturday, June 28th, on the shores of Port Milena, he was seriously wounded MP from Ulcinj. He was wounded, as he said, by two foreign nationals after a short verbal argument and stabbed him several times with a knife. The attackers then fled the scene and the Ulcinj police are searching for them...

- The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj filed an indictment against JM from that city for assaulting an official in the performance of official duty...

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