Former ministers questioned about the memorial plaque in Morinje; Krivokapić: Political persecution that is getting more intense

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ranko Krivokapić, who was heard with former Minister of Defense Raško Konjević this morning at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor on a criminal charge for placing a memorial plaque on a military facility in Morinje, said that this was just one of the procedures of political persecution that intensified in recent years.
They were there before, so I wouldn't absolve anyone, but now they have intensified and unfortunately they are part of the policy of stopping Montenegro on the path to European integration, which was clearly expressed in the threat of the EU and the complete freezing of our European path, which the citizens will pay for directly Montenegro and morally, which is very important, in the case of Morinje. A society that loses its moral compass like this loses any basis for normality, progress and development - said Krivokapić for Pobjeda after the hearing.
In addition to the criminal charges filed against the two former ministers by the Inspection for the Protection of Cultural Property, the Municipality of Kotor was ordered to remove the memorial plaque, which has not happened so far, because the competent municipal services cannot access the property of the military facility in Morinje and carry out the removal. memorial plaque.
On October 10 last year, the memorial plaque commemorating the detainees in the Morinj camp was ceremonially unveiled by the Montenegrin Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Raško Konjević and Ranko Krivokapić, together with Croatian officials, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman and the Croatian Minister of Defense Tom Medved
The two former ministers claim that no law was violated during the installation of the memorial plaque, because it was installed in accordance with the Law on Defense and the Army, which specifies that all movable and immovable things within the military facility are managed exclusively by the Ministry of Defense, including urban planning decisions on the property VCG, i.e. its facility.
Krivokapić said that the inspection that filed the criminal complaint is not responsible for the military facility where the memorial plaque was placed.
I will repeat what we have said many times, we have fulfilled the program of the Government of Montenegro, we have done what is the obligation on the European integration of Montenegro and what are the basic constitutional provisions. I will remind you that this is a very important provision in the Constitution of Montenegro in the preamble, as a valuable provision of the Euro-Atlantic integration of Montenegro. Without facing the past, there is no Euro-Atlantic path. Not only Croatia, but also other members ask us for that. That memorial plaque is a logical statement of our moral, political, and also legal obligation, bearing in mind the verdict of the court in The Hague for crimes committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, which clearly located the indebted criminal project and Greater Serbia as its ideological basis - said Krivokapić.
In support of the claim that this case is politically motivated, Krivokapić states that a protest was once organized in Morinje even before the inspection approached the ministries regarding the installation of the plaque.
And that only shows that it is a political motive. I understand that policy, it is not unknown, that policy led to the fact that Montenegro pays compensation to the victims from Morinje, that Montenegro should be ashamed of those acts and that the four were punished for those crimes. This is a continuation of that policy, and it has its expression through the behavior of the local self-government - concluded Krivoakpić.
M. J.