On August 1, the Constitutional Court accepted the constitutional appeal that I filed on behalf of my client Danilo Mandić and determined that the decision of the Court of Appeal of Montenegro of June 12, 2025 violated my client's right to liberty and security under Articles 29, paragraphs 1 and 2 and Article 30, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of Montenegro, as well as the right under Article 5, paragraph 1, item c) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, announced lawyer Miroje Jovanović.
"The Constitutional Court concluded that, taking into account all the evidence in the case, there are not sufficiently concrete and reliable reasons that would, at the level of basic suspicion, connect my client to the commission of the criminal offenses he is charged with," reads a statement Jovanović sent to the media.
He pointed out that although the courts claimed that there was reasonable suspicion, a careful analysis of the content and nature of the evidence presented, as interpreted by those courts, found that it left serious doubts as to who and how committed the acts in question.
"The court accepted my allegations that the assessment of the evidence was arbitrary, without their mutual agreement and without meeting the criteria for the existence of a basic suspicion. It was particularly pointed out that the reasoning of the decision to extend the detention did not contain detailed reasons that would justify the detention, which constitutes a violation of the right to liberty and security.
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"I hope, as a defense attorney in this case, that in the further course of the proceedings, the regular courts will consistently apply the rule on the generally binding character of the Constitutional Court's decisions and that the case will finally move from the terrain of political intrigue to the judicial framework, and thus to freedom for my client," concluded Jovanović.
The nephew of the Speaker of the Parliament, Andrija Mandić, is accused of wounding Darko Perović and Aris Turković in the center of the capital on April 19. He has been in custody since April 21, and in the meantime, the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica assessed that the actions of this informal bodyguard of the head of the parliament, Andrija Mandić, did not constitute the elements of the criminal offense of attempted aggravated murder, for which an investigation was conducted. Therefore, the case was forwarded for further proceedings to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
The Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica proposed on June 24 that Danilo Mandić's detention be extended. At a panel session on June 12, the Court of Appeal rejected as unfounded the appeal of Danilo Mandić's defense attorney against the decision of the Higher Court in Podgorica of May 16 on the extension of the defendant's detention. At that time, it was determined that Mandić's detention, according to that decision, will last until July 20, until 00:40.
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