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SOURCE: ANTENA M / AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
The search continues for Alija Balijagić, who is suspected of having killed brother and sister Milanka and Jovan Madžgalje last night in the Bjelo Polje village of Sokolac, Tomaševo region.
The police included a helicopter and drones in the search, and units of the Ministry of Defense joined the action.
Interior Minister Danilo Šaranović also arrived in Bijelo Polje.
Balijagić is already known to the police because he is a multiple returnee and a perpetrator of multiple crimes in the area of property offenses and rape.
"All available police units of the Regional Security Center 'North', anti-terrorist units, police dogs and a helicopter unit of the MUP and the Army of Montenegro have been made available and are undertaking intensive activities with the aim of locating and depriving this person of his freedom", they stated earlier from Police Department.
UP: Phone numbers you can call if you have seen a fugitive
At this stage of the investigation, the Police Directorate, on the basis of legal regulations and the appropriate approval of the competent prosecutor's office, publishes a photo of the wanted person, and informs and appeals to the public that if you see this person, report the same information immediately, that is, inform the police by calling the number on duty of the Bijelo Security Department Polje 067/184-844 or the toll-free number 122, the nearest police station or another way.
Citizens can report their information about this person to the police anonymously by calling these numbers.
"Once again, we appeal to the citizens of Bijelo Polje, especially the residents of the mentioned village, to be careful, stay in their residential buildings and not allow unknown persons to enter them, while the police undertakes all activities within their competence with the aim of bringing the security situation under control and deprivation of liberty executor.
With the further course of events, the police will make an announcement in a timely manner," the UP states.
What is known about Balijagić so far?
As RTCG writes, the police have been looking for the suspect Balijagić for 15 days for another criminal offense - the theft of a rifle.
He was also convicted of the criminal offense of rape in 2016.
He was sentenced in the Bijelo Polje High Court, presided over by Vukomir Bošković, to seven years in prison, after raping a seventy-six-year-old woman on October 30, 2015, in a suburban settlement in Bijelo Polje.
"There are no traces of my DNA, and that's why I think it's a classic set-up," he claimed during the trial.
The indictment states that on October 30, 2015, around 7:00 p.m., in the Lješnica settlement, he assaulted a 76-year-old woman using force and threatening her life.
"A.B. came to her house and pushed her from the hallway into the kitchen, grabbed her by the shoulders and told her to take off her clothes," the indictment states.
After that, he also shot at the police, the Standard reported earlier today.
According to the PV portal, in November 2015, during a robbery, Balijagić took a weapon from one of the houses in his village while the household members were sleeping, and it is suspected that he committed several thefts in Banji Selo, Oklad and Pavino Polje.
In those areas, he is remembered as a bandit who broke into the forests, and because of numerous robberies and bandit thefts and other acts, he spent about two decades in prison.
At the end of the eighties, he was suspected of several thefts in the surrounding villages, after which he moved to neighboring Serbia.
Before he fell into the hands of the anti-terrorist unit of the MUP of Montenegro in 2003, he committed a series of thefts and robberies in the villages of Prijepolje, Priboj and Čajetina municipalities, near the villages of Novovaro, breaking into elderly households, hiding from pursuit and fear and trembling in the mountain villages.
In May of last year, he was beaten by three neighbors, causing serious physical injuries, for which proceedings are still ongoing in the Basic Court.
He then claimed that he had calmed down, that his brothers and sisters who live abroad help him financially, and that he wants to lead a peaceful and honest life, even though he feels rejected by society.
