It's almost two past midnight, the middle of January. The camera of one of the pharmacies in Podgorica recorded that a person was standing at the door from the outside and managed to open the front door with a long object.
With a hood on his head, that person enters the pharmacy, followed by another, also wearing a hood. They approach the cash register, and two more people enter the pharmacy.
All four rummage through the drawers, take out papers, money and then leave the pharmacy one by one.
The action on the video lasts a little over a minute. The people who broke into the pharmacy that evening were minors and all of them at some point were users of the Center for Children and Youth "Ljubović" in Podgorica. Of these, three were in the detention facilities of the Podgorica police on June 1, from where they escaped that day, as "Vijesti" recently reported.
According to unofficial information from the editorial office, LH, VZ i BZ on that occasion, they stole a mobile phone and an official card from a police officer of the Podgorica Security Department (OB) and left the building unhindered. If they wanted, says the same source, they could have allowed other detainees to leave the official premises of the OB.
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The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, as they recently told "Vijesti", filed a case against those minors "due to reasonable suspicion that they committed the prolonged criminal offense of aggravated theft", and on July 4 submitted a proposal to the Basic Court in Podgorica to sentence them to juvenile prison...
One of those minors, LH, is currently in custody, on suspicion of having committed theft. Previously, he voluntarily moved away from "Ljubović", where, after the expiration of 60 days of detention, he was temporarily housed according to the decision of the High Court, and because of the suspicion that he had committed serious murder...
That and the other three minors from the video are from the same neighborhood and committed crimes together. When they end up in "Ljubović", they communicate without hindrance, in a language that none of the employees in that institution understand or speak. Some of them arbitrarily leave the institution, commit new crimes, return them to "Ljubović"...
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"There are currently 13 users staying in the institution, six of them are from the territory of Konik and they all know each other even before coming to the institution. "Some of them, the three of them, have a common history of committing crimes of theft, while two of them are suspected of having committed the crime of human trafficking", the director of "Ljubovića" told "Vijesta" Nina Delevic.
Although "Ljubović" is an open institution, users leave with permission, and any non-compliance with the agreed return date is considered arbitrary removal.
LH was placed in "Ljubović" several times and moved away arbitrarily more than ten times. One of the users, VD, who is suspected of the criminal offense of human trafficking, has already voluntarily left the Center twice since being placed at the end of July. The first time it was returned after a week, the second after twenty days. "Ljubović" left again tomorrow morning...
Delević explains that a user can be accommodated in the Center "Ljubović" on two grounds, by decision of the competent Center for Social Work and by decision of the competent court.
"Even before, it was a practice to place beneficiaries from the same crimes in our institution, if the acting judge or the competent Center for Social Work so assesses. I am of the opinion that the seriousness of the criminal offense, as well as the age of the minor, whether he is a returnee, family circumstances, etc., are more valued when deciding on placement, than whether they are from the same crime. This is a problem for us at the institution, because in general this user population tends to group together," she says.
He adds that the work in the institution is designed in such a way that professional workers are constantly present and that they mainly perform the function of "substitute parents", to work with them on personal hygiene, schooling, cooperation with the family, conducting educational and psychological workshops, and involving users in the community. , different types of work, go on trips with them...
"However, peer influence is crucial, although we try to minimize that influence," she says.
Guesting recently at RTCG, she said that users see that the system and the state are powerless. She then cited the example that, after "Ljubović" left one of them arbitrarily, on the same evening, another user, his friend, did not show up at the institution during the period until which his permission to leave was valid.
"Even when the search unit finds a user, it will bring him to me and we will go into a vicious circle of arbitrary removals, because they see that the state has no mechanism," she said at the time.
Professor of Criminal Law Velimir Rakočević, guesting on the same show, said that the previous rule was to separate such users and not place them in the same place.
"Previously, they would have sent some to 'Ljubović', and some to a prison-type institution, now they are literally all placed in the same place," he said, adding that the way it is now, "criminogenic infection is inevitable."
Delević also told "Vijesta" that socialization among users is something that must be allowed, but that it must be under controlled conditions. That's why, he says, the fact that some users talk to each other in another language is a problem for them.
"They all speak the Montenegrin language very fluently, and every other language is used for possible contracts and agreements regarding things they should not do," she says.
Users who speak other than Montenegrin mostly speak Albanian. When asked if "Ljubović" hired someone to translate because of this, Delević answered in the negative:
"We are not, because all our users are fluent in the Montenegrin language, and they use Albanian occasionally, so hiring someone would not make sense, but we try to suggest to the users that everyone, both workers and users, use the language that we all know. If we had a user who does not know the Montenegrin language, we would hire a translator, if we had the means for it".
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