Retired policeman Goran Stanković sued the police and the state and is demanding almost 183.500 euros for the mental pain he suffered after testifying about the beating and torture of the late Aleksandar Pejanović in the Podgorica concrete mixer four years ago.
The dispute regarding Stanković's lawsuit will begin at the beginning of November in the Basic Court in Podgorica, before judge Ljiljana Šoškić.
In the lawsuit, it is written that after the beating of Pejanović, criminal proceedings were initiated against several police officers, including Stanković, and that, after he presented what he knew about the event, which indicated the responsibility of other police officers, as well as senior police officers, Stanković was acquitted.
"After that, the plaintiff and his family are exposed to unprecedented pressure, blackmail, illegal offers, surveillance, anonymous and open threats, harassment, as well as extreme isolation, misery and poverty of the plaintiff and his family," the lawsuit says.
Proceedings against five officers and police officers for beating the late Pejanović are ongoing in the Basic Court in Podgorica.
"In addition, all the jobs (security jobs) for which the plaintiff applied, after being checked by those companies at the Police Directorate, were unattainable and impossible for the plaintiff, because the UP never gave a positive opinion for his employment", it is stated in lawsuits.
After almost 16 years spent in uniform, and surviving hell for testifying that the late Aleksandar Pejanović was tortured in a concrete mixer, Stanković received a pension of 209 euros in May.
Dissatisfied with the pension amount, he then announced an appeal.
"My effective length of service has been reduced by almost 2 and a half years. Instead of 15 years and seven months, as I calculated, I have worked for 13 years and three months," said Stanković at the time.
The first insider in the history of the Montenegrin police, who was forced to leave his job only a few months before his retirement, believes that it is particularly interesting that last year he was credited with five months more effective service than this year.
Last year, however, he was rejected because he was not employed. In mid-March, Stankovic told "Vijesta" that he did not repent for testifying to the heinous crime, that he would not remain silent even today, even though he is barely making ends meet, without a cent of income and rejected by everyone.
"The truth died, and I with it. When I can't provide my family with a normal life, I'm dead. In Montenegro, actually, there is no truth... I have no comrades, no friends, except for these two (wife and son) nobody. From the very beginning, I knew what would happen to me," Stanković said at the time.
Proceedings against five officers and police officers for beating the late Pejanović are ongoing in the Basic Court in Podgorica.
Stanković, as the only policeman who spoke publicly about it, was forced to leave his job a few months before his retirement, and the director of UP Božidar Vuksanović initiated proceedings for his rehabilitation at the beginning of April this year and he received a pension of 209 euros.
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