Paunović: Adžić, stop talking about the security sector.

The spokesperson for Democratic Montenegro said that the security system was "contaminated to the core" the moment GP URA official and former Minister of Interior Filip Adžić stepped into it.

Paunović reacted to Adžić's allegations that "Montenegro has stumbled morally and in terms of security, the government must fall."

"Mr. Adžić, you are the last person who has the right to say the word 'security'. Not because you don't know, but because you are responsible. Because the security system was contaminated to the core the moment you stepped into it. You who didn't have the courage to say even close to the same words to the Director of the Police Administration Lazar Šćepanović on a television show, but you gathered the strength only after the cameras turned off. Silent in front of the man in the studio, but loud only when he is no longer there, because Šćepanović knows everything, and what he knows would not please Filip Adžić. Such courage does not deserve comment, it deserves pity," said Paunović.

He added that the security sector "is being spoken about by a man whose chaos in the country was caused by the very people he personally granted Montenegrin citizenship to, and later this sector had to arrest them."

"With you, an honorable citizen, today an accused. The security sector is being discussed by a man whose assistant police director was arrested, whom he proposed. And not long after, the head of the Danilovgrad Security Department, again a staff member appointed by his police director. This is not an exception, this is a system. The system that you built. The security sector is being discussed by someone who left the North Regional Security Center empty, devastated and criminalized, in which almost all managers have either been dismissed, suspended or under investigation," said Paunović.

He also stated that this is all "the result of your policies."

"The security sector is being talked about by a man who fled the country with Ljubo Milović and Nebojša Bugarin immediately after they followed the then Speaker of the Parliament, Aleksa Bečić, on the orders of the Kavački clan, and you magically stated that it was nothing serious, which is why the Police did not detain him, interrogate him, let alone arrest him. And after that, he became inaccessible to the competent state bodies. The security sector is being talked about by someone during whose mandate tunnels were dug to the High Court depot in the middle of the center of the Capital City, next to the most important state institutions. Trucks of smuggled cigarettes missed the locations where they were supposed to be burned, and you were silent about all this. And not only were you silent, but your chief inspector from the ANB sat hugging the head of the Montenegrin underworld. That is your image of the security sector, which you built. The security sector is being talked about by a man who, not only did not clean up the system, but protected those who should have been prosecuted."

Paunović also said that Adžić "sent police officers who were later prosecuted on unpaid leave, just so that disciplinary proceedings would not be initiated against them."

"But you know what's worst about it all? This is neither a mistake nor an oversight, this is a choice. Your choice. You were the main advocate for forming a government with parties that turned the state into a smuggling machine. With parties during whose time a clan, a mafia, and a bloody balance sheet of 718 people were created. Therefore, Mr. Adžić, if you have any political dignity, stop talking about the security sector. Because everything you praised in that sector has either fled, been arrested, or is under investigation," Paunović said.