In the High Court in Podgorica, the trial of Radovan Mujović, Vasilj Rafailović and other defendants continued with the testimony of lawyer Ivan Šljukić.
In front of the special panel chaired by Judge Igor Đuričković, lawyer Ivan Šljukić told that one of the SPO officers threatened the accused Aleksandar Đurđevac that he was going to break him. He added that he ran towards him during the search of the vehicle. Witness Šljukić said that the official did not have identification.
At the previous main trial, the court ordered that the lawyer Ivan Škljuić be heard as a witness, in order to verify the allegations of the defense of Aleksandar Đurđevac.
"That was the summer of 2020. It was raining and lawyer Dragan Mitrić called me and asked me to replace him at the hearing because he was on his way from Podgorica. Rain threatened to fall so the search was not postponed. When I came to Kapina Polje, the police parking lot, everyone was there: UIKS officers, Đurđevac, SPO officers, the police," said lawyer Šljkić.
He added that he recognized SPO officer Ivan Đoković and that he was in charge of the search.
"During the search, one of the officers shouted at Đurđevac and spoke to him with words like 'I will break you', 'I will continue', 'I will do it again'... Then, when Ivan Đoković said that a gun had been found in the trunk of Đurđevac's car during the search, the same officer who threatened Đurđevac ran into him. There was no physical contact," said lawyer Šljukić.
Šljukić added that he addressed that official, whose name he does not know, and that he told him not to threaten or insult Đurđevac and that he would report such behavior.
"I asked Đurđevac if he had previously experienced any kind of problems or torture with that official who threatened him during the search somewhere or as part of these actions. He said 'that's good' and we didn't report him", said Šljukić.
When asked by the judge, he described that SPO officer, whom he claims threatened and insulted Đurđevac: "He is of medium height, you can see that he is in training, he has a tight T-shirt and an aggressively thick chain".
Today, the defense requested the termination of custody of the accused Žarko Pejaković and Davor Avdić. They added that they have been in custody for more than three years. The court rejected the motion to terminate custody.
Lawyer Miloš Vuksanović said that Žarko Pejaković is an unconvicted person and that it is scandalous that he is still in custody. He added that Pejaković has been in custody for more than three years, and that he is charged with the criminal act of setting fire to a vehicle. He reminded that no sentence greater than one and a half years in prison was imposed for such an act.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Radovan L. Mujović and Vasilij B. Rafailović, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, and Petar V. Lipovina, Mitra D. Marković, Filip M. Knežević, Žarko Ž. Pejakovića, Lazar M. Nedovića, Aleksandar B. Ćetkovića, Boško Ž. Pavlović, Serbian citizens Jovan Mirković and Aleksandar Stevanović, Marko A. Zorić, Nikola Z. Marić, Đurđevac V. Uroš, Filip M. Bešović, Goran V. Rakočević, Ivan R. Brnović, Nikola P. Drecuna, Đurđevac Z. Aleksandra, Moš I. Paović, Uroš V. Vučinić, Davor H. Avdić and Nemanja M. Zurovac, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization.
At the beginning of 2017, the defendants Mujović and Rafailović created a criminal organization for the purpose of committing criminal acts, whose members became the accused, as well as Bajram Pista and Marinko Rajković, who were designated as cooperating witnesses by the decision of the High Court.
Mujović was accused of causing general danger by incitement, serious bodily injury by incitement, and Marić and Uroš Đurđevac, causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons, Ćetković - serious bodily injury by incitement, Drecun for the criminal offense as an accomplice of serious bodily injury, while Rakočević, Bešović , Knežević, Lipovina and Marković accused of causing general danger through incitement, and Nedović and Pejaković as accomplices for the criminal offense of causing general danger.
The defendants Mirković and Lipovina are accused of having committed the criminal offense of aggravated murder by incitement. Radovan Mujović was also charged with the same criminal offense, who, as stated in the indictment, asked Pista Bajram to "butcher" MB, the wife of associate witness MM. accused of "aggravated attempted murder", while Knežević was accused of two criminal offenses of incitement to murder", the indictment states.
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