The Prosecutor's Office rejected as unfounded the request of Branislav Lutovac, the lawyer of "Vijesti" editor-in-chief Mihail Jovović, that in the case against Miljan Mugoša, the son of the mayor of Podgorica, Zoran Vučinić, the representative of the indictment, be excluded.
Podgorica Basic Court judge Nada Rabrenović told TV "Vijesti" that the trial will continue on May 10.
The trial of Miljan Mugoša for the incident in which he and his father Miomir Mugoša attacked the "Vijesti" team in August 2009 was postponed on March 23 due to the request of Mihail Jovović's defense attorneys for the exemption of the deputy primary prosecutor Zoran Vučinić.
After that request, the judge of the Basic Court, Nada Rabrenović, stopped the proceedings until the basic prosecutor in Podgorica, Ljiljana Klikovac, made a statement about it.
Attorney Branislav Lutovac explained the request for exemption, stating that from the beginning of the proceedings, the prosecution had grossly violated the Code of Criminal Procedure
Jovović's defense attorney, lawyer Branislav Lutovac, explained the request for exemption by stating that from the beginning of the proceedings, the prosecution grossly violated the Code of Criminal Procedure, violating the principles of establishing truth and fairness, as well as that the prosecution did not respect the provision of the same law that prescribes the duty of the prosecutor in the case of his client. to determine the facts that go against, but also in favor of, the defendant.
He recalled that the prosecution made four findings trying to justify the construction of serious bodily injury to Mugoša's driver, Dragan Radonjić.
"I killed myself trying to prove a very simple but essential fact that my client is not a violent person. In the indictment, the prosecutor made a triage of evidence in a negative direction by omitting those circumstances that favor my client, and leaving only those circumstances that you charge him.
In this way, he extremely violated the principle of truthfulness in criminal proceedings," said lawyer Lutovac on March 23.
In support of the claim that the prosecution did not act legally, he then reminded that in the indictment the prosecutor ignored the statements of Jovović and photojournalist Boris Pejović, that a gun was drawn on Jovović, which both stated in the report against Mugoša, right after the incident.
According to the indictment, the younger Mugoša is accused of causing serious bodily injury to Jovović, in the form of a burst eardrum, and Jovović is accused of causing minor bodily harm to Mugoša's driver, Dragan Radonjić.
Radonjić reported himself as the "victim" in the incident 13 hours after his boss and the younger Mugoša attacked the "Vijesti" team because photojournalist Boris Pejović tried to photograph the illegally parked vehicle of the first man of Podgorica.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivan Brajović, announced last year that he would re-check the police action in the specific case, which did not happen.
The incident took place on August 5, 2009, on St. Peter Cetinjski Boulevard, near the then "Art" cafe.
There was no investigation into the gun that the younger Mugoš pulled on the "Vijesti" editor, nor into the violent behavior of the mayor.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivan Brajović, announced last year that he would re-check the police action in this specific case, which did not happen.
The elder Mugoša was fined for the offense of insulting in a public place.
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