Bečić: We are very often in a situation where we have to explain things for which we have absolutely no responsibility.

Very often we are in a situation where we have to explain things for which we have absolutely no responsibility, Aleksa Bečić, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Montenegro for Security, Defense, Fight against Crime and Internal Policy and President of Democratic Montenegro, announced today.

The Democratic Montenegro statement states that as part of the membership re-registration process on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of Democratic Montenegro, Bečić visited the Local Committees of Block V and VI.

He said that "whenever the Democrats had greater political influence, they contributed to progress," and that "they never sought majority and power at the expense of principles."

"You know that we have never sought to gain votes and mandates at the expense of principles, we have never allowed that and we would never allow that. We have always tried to create a political organization that will preserve principles, preserve purity, preserve values ​​and that each mandate we receive is honestly earned. And I think that time has shown that wherever Democratic Montenegro is and whenever it has had greater political influence, even in the area of ​​mathematics, Montenegro and individual local governments have not been worse off, they have only been better off," Bečić emphasized.

He added that various actors connected to organized crime in Montenegro are trying to stop the reform processes by changing topics from week to week and using every current situation to create artificial noise in the public.

"Very often we are in a situation where we have to explain what we have absolutely no responsibility for, not to mention praise for the enormous burden, sacrifice and numerous reforms that are being implemented. But it is clear to me, of course, and I believe that you also understand why these two years and a bit, these attacks have been so strong, they are continuous, they are expressed from various sides, the social scene of all branches and servants of organized crime in Montenegro from any side. Precisely because they are afraid of clean people, they are afraid of free people, they are afraid of determined people. And they will always try to stop the reform processes, they will change topics, of course. They will follow what is current from Sunday to Sunday. And anything that happens in Montenegro, that they can get attached to, they will be loud and vocal. You will see when they come forward and all their supporting staff that exists in various parts of society," said Bečić.

He said that he would always "look for these branches and direct their attention, specifically towards our political entity."

"You also see when they appear through various forms of that structure and when they act hybridly, who they mention and who they deal with in these days and weeks and in the past two and a half years. Remember the key players in those protests a year ago, kudos to the people who were there out of conviction and sincere motives, because you should never generalize anything. You remember when we claimed that this had nothing to do with any of their emotions in the case of these compromised individuals, but that it had to do exclusively with a monstrous attempt to stop the reform processes. And you saw that today the main actors in those attempts are facing accusations from the authorities of committing the most serious crimes, leading and being members of several criminal organizations. So the motives were completely clear and we pointed them out in a timely manner. All the attacks and nervousness are in vain, the authorities only look at the law, the state is finally above everyone, and the time of the untouchables is in the past," said Bečić.

He said that, as the coordinator of the Bureau for Operational Coordination of Intelligence and Security Sector Bodies (BOK), he regularly points out the need for urgent legal reforms regarding the efficiency of court proceedings, violations of oversight measures, and the challenges the state faces due to the failure to implement reforms.

"You saw how long it takes to decide on the urgent appeal of the SDT to order Vesna Medenica, who was convicted in the first instance in only one case, to be detained for ten years. In the case of Miloš Medenica, one panel cannot reach a verdict for almost three years, and another panel, the same case, practically the same, reaches a verdict within a few months, but the three-year period expires and that person leaves Spuž. Not to mention the procedure and legal framework when we talk about violations of supervision measures. And then someone should ask us, and we have been crying out for years, pointing out, concluding, pleading and giving a solution formula what needs to be changed, which laws need to be changed and how reforms should be implemented. And in my opinion, if you ask me, in addition to the urgent amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code, what I have also been pointing out for a long time, and I am glad that the Minister of Justice is publicly announcing this, should be established, namely the establishment of a Special Court for Organized Crime and other most serious criminal offenses. And the establishment of a new court would be a kind of vetting because high "The criteria for who can be part of that court and who will judge in the most important, most difficult and most complex cases for the future of Montenegro and for everything that is the rule of law," concluded Bečić.