During the protest in Podgorica on February 15, the police, in addition to several young men and a girl, arrested an entire family. Mir, Milka and their son Mladen Radević were handcuffed by the special forces because they did not comply with the order to remove them.
The three of them came to ask for the most basic - the right to life and a regular meal!
The Radevićs live in the Kakaricka gora settlement in Podgorica, in a house that Miro built with his own hands three years ago. So far, he has managed to make only one room conditional for life, the rest is plastered. They don't have connected water, so they bring it in water bottles. Before that, they lived in a shack for two decades.
"We are not dangerous criminals, I am not Darko Šarić and I do not carry drugs, and they arrested me just like that, as if I had drugs"
"We have nothing to live on, that's why we went to the protest. While we and most of the citizens protested peacefully, some started throwing stones, shooting at the police... We didn't do any of that. We sat down on the street, and the police brutally started to arrest us, they pushed me, pushed my wife, hit me and put me in the 'marica'... They even spat on us," said Miro, adding that he asked the police for a video showing which policeman was hitting his wife, but he didn't get it.
Arrest of Milka Radović
"We are not dangerous criminals, I'm not Darko Šarić and I don't carry drugs, and that's how they arrested me, as if I had drugs. We have nothing to live on. All three of us are at the Labor Bureau, when we look for a job they tell the two of us that we are too old, and for the son, who is 20 years old, let them tell him at the bureau. Because of all this, we will again have a peaceful protest, whenever it is organized," says Miro.
The Radević family, with the exception of 60 euros of social assistance, survives on the money that Miro earns by working physically. Sometimes it is five euros, sometimes 25. When there is no work, then there is not even that much.
"We are not members of DPS, if we were, they would immediately give us a job, but we will not join." Now that they hit my family is inhumane, but I expect even worse violence before the elections."
He looks for work every now and then in vain:
"We are not members of DPS, if we were, they would immediately give us a job, but we will not join." Now that they hit my family is inhumane, but I expect even worse violence before the elections. Maybe they will come and threaten to kill us if we don't vote DPS. I will not vote for them, there is no way, I will die, I will not vote for them. Let Milo show this to Europe, let him take this picture to the world, so that the world can see that they caught big fish. To see that we cannot get a job because we are not members of the DPS".
They kept our son for 12 hours unnecessarily
Mir and Milka's son Mladen was arrested by the police, although he was not even in the group sitting on the road:
"They released him on Sunday morning, because he wasn't on the video, you can see that he was standing by the pole, with a group of people. It didn't bother them that they detained him for hours beforehand. He experienced the stress of being arrested. They kept the two of us for a full 48 hours, because, according to Konjević, we are criminals, big fish. They treated us like criminals and kept us from going to the protest again on Sunday, which we didn't even know was the worst. However, despite the arrest, I will continue to I'm asking for my rights, and someone has to bear responsibility for this."
They don't touch what they targeted, and they treat us like criminals
Miro claims that on Wednesday, while doing physical work, he recognized one of the young men who threw stones at the police and the Government building during the protest.
“I asked him 'do we know each other', he said no. I answered him that I recognize him and that I will not lie in prison, and he should be free. I also asked him where they got so many stones to throw, and why they did it. He told me that they brought the stones from Morača. They were paid 50 euros each. Just to blur it. These are the same people who shot at earlier protests," Miro believes.
He is outraged that the hooligans were not arrested:
"This is an honest police force and those who shot are honest citizens of Montenegro, and we are criminals. They are also accusing me of taking my wife to the protest. Now we need to be tried and I don't care about me, but they put my wife in concrete mixer, in a cell, as a criminal... I told them, bring Konjević to me, because someone will have to answer for this. The policeman told me, 'don't let me come inside and break your kidneys'".
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