Batrićević: Dean of FCJK Aleksandar Radoman injured at protest in front of Vila Gorica

The President of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature, Boban Batrićević, said that on Tuesday evening, during a protest in front of Vila Gorica, regarding, as the demonstrators believe, the irregular awarding of the Thirteenth of July Award, the dean of that educational institution, Aleksandar Radoman, was injured.

Batrićević wrote this in a letter to the ambassadors of the EU, the US and Great Britain in Montenegro, saying that the police used excessive force at the protest.

"Media footage shows that Radoman stood calmly in front of the police cordon, and that the police officers used excessive force and a large amount of pepper spray against him, which is why Dean Radoman ended up in the Emergency Center in Podgorica. In addition to the dean, who suffered serious consequences from the pepper spray, our teaching associate, MA Stefan Todorović, was also slightly injured, who also protested non-violently," he said.

Batrićević said that this type of brutality against peaceful citizens does not serve the honor of a country that wants to join the EU.

"We hold the Minister of Police Danilo Šaranović and the Speaker of Parliament Andrija Mandić, under whose directives these attacks on citizens were carried out, most responsible for this brutality against representatives of the academic community and professors, as well as other citizens. We ask you to inform your governments, as well as human rights organizations in your countries, about this incident," he concluded in his address.