Those arrested at Saturday's protests in Podgorica were released yesterday to defend themselves, after their 48-hour detention ended. Retired journalist Dragoslav-Duća Milačić (73), his son, journalist Marko Milačić, Forum 2010 spokesperson Boban Batrićević, representative of the Civic Front from Cetinje Ninoslav Kaluđerović, Irena Delja, Danilo were released after two days in Podgorica police cells. Mrvaljević, Miro and Milka Radević, Aljoša Turović, Bato Božović, Nino Zilić and Aleksej Zeković.
A group of hooligans with phantom girls, who on Saturday raised tensions at a relatively peaceful protest and threw stones at the police, is still beyond the reach of the law. Only Zilić and Zeković are suspected of allegedly throwing oysters. The rest were arrested on Saturday at around 14 pm, after the tensions calmed down, after sitting peacefully on the crosswalk in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.
The street they "blocked" was certainly closed to traffic. Although the criminal offense they were charged with, "failure to comply with a removal order", is punishable by a fine or a prison sentence of up to three months, the prosecutor kept them in custody for two days, with the explanation that they could repeat the same criminal offense, since the gatherings were allegedly was also announced for Sunday.
Most of the arrested yesterday were brought to the Basic Court in handcuffs shortly after 13:23 p.m. Milačić, Batrićević and Kaluđerović from the police squad came out singing "prisoners are waiting for them, prisoners are waiting for them". The investigating judge immediately handed them decisions to defend themselves from freedom. After his handcuffs were removed in court, Kaluđerović told "Vijesta" that he sees the arrest and detention in custody as the beginning of the fight for chapters 24 and XNUMX: "I see this as the arrest of big fish. I'm glad it started with us who harassed the street that day".
Batrićević assessed that the prosecution's decision to prosecute them was an "order from the power centers": "Detaining people who sat on the sidewalk for 48 hours as murderers, or destroyers of system institutions, is shameful. With that gesture, we tried to defend freedom and seek a better state in the country," said Batrićević. Quoting the band DST from Nikšić, he said that they can close it, but not break it.
"With handcuffs and detention, the state wanted to show others, who want to show civil disobedience, that they will do the same as us. Everything they did motivates us and many others," said Milačić.
After the release, the group of those arrested met with the leader of Forum 2010, Žarko Rakčević.
Member of the Council for Civil Control of Police Work, Aleksandar Zeković submitted an initiative yesterday to urgently check the police's actions in the event of a civil protest in KCCG on the same day, when the police did not arrest a group of hooligans posing as the Zagorička Clan, which harassed doctors for hours.
The vast majority of hooligans, who threw stones at police officers, were neither arrested nor detained
The prosecutor wrote that we are a danger to society
A student from Cetinje, Irena Delja, said that she felt like a criminal in detention and that everything that happened to them in the past two days was cruel.
"I think that the prosecutor took a subjective position and that they did not look at all the circumstances, they should have made a distinction between those of us who sat down at the very end of the protest and did not participate in the stoning of the policemen and those who did, and not to treat us so cruelly. Spending 48 hours in detention is really horrible," Delja said. She said that she will always appear at peaceful demonstrations in the future.
"In the decision ordering custody, the prosecutor wrote that we were detained for 48 hours because we are a danger to society, with the explanation that we accept and approve this type of protest. That is not true, we do not approve of stoning police officers, nor of police violence against citizens. What we did was a symbolic expression of our dissatisfaction, that's why we came," she said.
As she was leaving, she said to one of the cameramen with a smile: "Remember what criminals look like."
Prosecutor Čađenović interrogated him with a cigarette, being cheeky all the time
Milačić and Batrićević said that the deputy of the ODT, Saša Čađenović, behaved brazenly and smoked a cigarette all the time.
"Before he said that there would be a break, during which they should decide on extending the detention, he asked me 'do you need a doctor', my lawyer then asked 'does that mean you have already decided', and he said no. However, he did make up his mind," said Milacic.
Batrićević added that such malicious behavior and malicious questions "with a cigarette in his mouth" are incomprehensible: "And all this in the presence of his superior - Ljiljana Klikovac. They tried to put the blame on everyone and the organization of the protest, but to no avail, because the strength of these protests was precisely that everyone came on their own responsibility".
Batrićević assessed the 48-hour detention in inhumane conditions as shameful. He pointed out that they were not even allowed to eat at the police station from 14 pm on Saturday, when they were arrested, until XNUMX am on Sunday.
"They didn't let us have any contacts, the policemen didn't know how to answer us in what capacity we were detained. There were also nice gestures from certain policemen, and some treated us as if we were criminals without any rights. We couldn't get books or newspapers... They treated us in a shameful way," Batrićević said.
They hit a pensioner
Today, pensioner Dragoslav Milačić will file a criminal complaint against the policemen who beat him, and then falsely accused him of trying to take a gun from one of them.
Milačić (73) was arrested after he stood up to protect his son Marko. After being released from detention yesterday, he was in the KC, where doctors diagnosed a hematoma on the left side of his chest, measuring eight by three centimeters, and two bruises on his left leg.
When he went to file a report, he was told that he had to do it at the Police Complaints Service and send it by fax.
Marko Milačić, Dragoslav's son, said yesterday that it is incomprehensible to him that his father, who is 73 years old and also sick, is charged with preventing an official from performing his official duty: "Imagine that he prevents 100 policemen from performing their official duty".
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