Bečić: The state must not allow those accused of the most serious crimes to be released through inefficient judicial processes

Deputy Prime Minister for Security, Defense, Fight against Crime and Internal Policy Aleksa Bečić congratulated the Police Administration (UP) on, as he said, another in a series of decisive, courageous and professionally carried out actions against organized crime groups and their continuous attempts to undermine the security sector, the institutions of the system and the state itself.

According to him, today's action, as well as everything announced by the director of the Police Department on this occasion, "once again clearly confirms how urgent and necessary amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code are."

"The state must no longer allow those accused of the most serious crimes to go free due to inefficient court processes, procedural abuses, deliberate obstructions and endless delays," said Bečić.

Therefore, he adds, it is necessary to extend the duration of detention in the most serious cases, prevent abuses of procedural rights that serve as a shield for criminal structures, and define violation of supervision measures as a separate criminal offense.

"Numerous actions, strong strikes against criminal structures, a large number of prosecuted and arrested persons, deprivation of freedom of fugitives from justice even at the most distant destinations, exceptional international cooperation and a decisive cleansing of the system from criminal collaborators. All this is causing increasing panic, nervousness and disorientation in criminal ranks. This panic is increasingly manifested today through monstrous forms of hybrid action, pressure, subversion and attacks on those responsible for the fight against organized crime," Bečić pointed out.

He also said that these attacks are not proof of their strength.

"On the contrary, they are an admission of their fear. An admission that the state is finally and irreversibly breaking one link in the criminal chain. An admission that the mafia's space is narrowing day by day. An admission that institutions are achieving victory after victory and that there is no longer anyone who can be stronger than the state," he said.

Bečić added that "the state does not negotiate with the mafia."

"The state does not turn a blind eye to crime. The state strikes where crime thinks it is most protected. And it will strike more and more strongly, more and more decisively and more persistently, until the final collapse of organized criminal structures. The type, quantity and brutality of attacks by mafia structures and their cheap servants of various profiles have only further generated a rarely seen determination among numerous leaders, officials and honorable professionals in the system to bring this most important struggle of the state to an end," said Bečić.

That is why, he claims, "their disorientation is at its peak," and that is why "their attacks are getting dirtier."

"That's why their methods are increasingly monstrous. But that's why the institutional blows are also getting stronger. Because there is no one who is steeped in crime, violence, smuggling, corruption or betrayal of state interests who will not be held accountable to the state of Montenegro and its institutions," he said.

Bečić adds that this is a fight for the state, for justice, for the safety of citizens, and for the future.

"...In which the law will not kneel before the mafia, but the mafia will be held accountable before the law. Just watch how the state will continue to carry out increasingly stronger actions against criminal organizations, their members and leaders in the coming period," he concluded.