The Higher State Prosecutor's Office has failed for a decade to discover who attempted to kill the current head of the Special Police Department (SPO) in July 2016. Predrag Šukovića.
From that prosecutor's office, headed by the prosecutor Beautiful Medenica, claim that they continue to continuously give orders to the Police Directorate to take all measures and actions aimed at identifying the perpetrator.
Prosecutors went back to square one after he was acquitted of the charges for that crime. Radovan Aleksic, and now they are searching for an unknown perpetrator.
"In the case of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, after an order was issued to suspend the investigation in relation to RA, a case was opened against an unknown person for the criminal offense of attempted murder committed against P. Š., which is in the investigation phase, within which the prosecutor's office continuously issues orders to the Police Directorate to take all measures and actions aimed at identifying the perpetrator of the criminal offense in question," the VDT Podgorica responded to "Vijesti" on April 24.
The newspaper asked the prosecutor's office what they had done since the order to suspend the investigation into Aleksić was issued and whether any of it had yielded results.
They did not answer questions about whether they had requested international assistance in the case since the order to suspend the investigation against Aleksić was issued, and if so, from which country, nor when they last took action to discover who tried to kill Šuković.
The prosecutor's office did not respond to questions about whether they ever, in the investigation of the attempted murder, checked the information that the perpetrator was MH, whether that foreign citizen was questioned and if so, when, or whether they ever filed a criminal complaint against him. Ahma Hajdarpašić, who reported Aleksić as the perpetrator.
On July 11, 2016, the current head of the Special Police Department, Predrag Šuković, was wounded in the center of the capital.
Two years ago, the Podgorica State Prosecutor's Office told "Vijesti" that, following the findings of the Forensic Medicine Board of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade on the conducted anthropological examination, it was assessed that there was no evidence from which there was a reasonable suspicion that Aleksić had tried to kill Šuković, and that therefore an order was issued to suspend the investigation, after which a new case was opened.
"After an order was issued in the aforementioned case to suspend the investigation against RA, a case was formed against an unidentified person and transferred to the criminal record register, in which measures and actions are continuously being taken to shed light on the incident in question," Medenica said at the beginning of 2024.
The current head of the Special Police Department was wounded on July 11, 2016, around 10.30:XNUMX a.m. in Njegoševa Street in Podgorica.
Investigators have not yet determined which weapon someone tried to kill him with.
After being wounded, he stated in his testimony that on the critical day he was walking along Njegošova street and that he heard "at least three or four shots", which, he writes, rang out louder in his right ear:
"That after the shooting, he noticed that his sneakers were full of blood, and when he turned around, he noticed, about 10 meters away, how a man was walking away with a hurried step"...
Describing, among other things, the attacker as a man with a height of 175-177 centimeters, he said that he was not in physical contact with him, but that he was sure that this person was in his immediate vicinity when he shot.
He said that he worked in various responsible positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), and that he had no contact with members of the military security forces.
After investigators suspected the now acquitted man, he said that he did not know Aleksić and that before the attempted murder, "he had not received any threatening messages from anyone recently"...
In April 2020, the prosecution submitted the indictment to the Higher Court for review, and even then Aleksić claimed that he had nothing to do with the attack on the inspector, and that he was in Belgrade at the time.
"During my arrest, I was told that I was arrested on the basis of a local warrant, and only later did I learn that there was never a warrant. All investigative actions were taken to frame me for an offense I did not commit. The greatest manipulation and editing by the police and the prosecution was when using the video, which is a forgery and editing," Aleksić stated in 2022.
After his detention, he was ordered to stay away from his family in Belgrade for five years. During his five-year stay in Podgorica, Aleksić said that the police often stopped him, checked his ID...
“In February 2021, while I was sitting in the ‘Ramada’, a man approached me and said he was allegedly the head of security for the then Prime Minister. Zdravka Krivokapića". He told me that I would be killed, and that the former government would carry it out. Since I knew who the Prime Minister's security chief was, I did not fall for that trick. He suggested that I should carry a weapon with me, but also offered to sell me transcripts of conversations between former DPS officials. Of course, I refused, and I informed the right people about everything," he said at the time.
"The people who ordered the staged trial from the state leadership had three goals: to protect the real orderers and perpetrators of the attack on Predrag Šuković, to deal with me, and to eliminate me as an inconvenient witness as a victim of the brutality of the 'black threes'," the retired colonel said in the courtroom in mid-October 2022, after suing the state for damages because the prosecution's investigation into attempted murder against him was suspended after five years.
Aleksić then said that he did not know Šuković, but that it was clear that "those who ordered the attack on the police inspector are the same ones who in 1999 ordered the black gangs to attack him with firearms in Nikšić"...
"He didn't organize all this against me." Milo Djukanovic but one of his close associates, who made my children cry, and who was the head of the security service coordination bureau at the time. I think the background to all this was that Šuković was suspected by top state officials of having initiated the 'black three' affair in 2013 and of having encouraged an insider Brajuško Brajušković", who spoke publicly about it," Aleksić said.
He stated that he was arrested on October 2, 2016 at the Dobrakovo border crossing on suspicion that he allegedly shot Šuković in the center of Podgorica on July 11, 2016.
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