Protest in Nikšić: Murder of Ljubiša Mrdak must be solved; Protests announced in front of the prosecutor's office in Podgorica

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

A group of citizens of Nikšić, family and friends of the murdered Ljubiša Mrdak will organize a protest in front of the prosecutor's office in Podgorica next Friday, and this is just the beginning of the fight for justice, it was announced at tonight's gathering at Šaka Petrović Square in Nikšić.

The protest gathering in Nikšić was organized due to the acquittal of seven defendants for the murder of Ljubiša Mrdak and the robbery of the post office in Nikšić. That first-instance verdict was pronounced three days ago by the Higher Court in Podgorica. Ljubiša Mrdak was killed in October 2021 in the parking lot of the New Post Office in Nikšić when he, as a security guard, was trying to prevent an armed robbery.

At tonight's protest, outrage was expressed over the work of the judicial authorities in Montenegro and the formation of the Association for the Fight against Organized Crime, which will bear the name of Ljubiša Mrdak, was announced.

"I'm not sure that the prosecution failed, I'm not sure that the court failed, but both the one who leads the prosecution and the one who leads the court have until Friday to show some face and resign because of this crime of crimes," said Petar Vuković tonight on behalf of the organizers of the gathering in Nikšić.

The sister of the murdered Ljubiša Mrdak, Sanja Gobović, said during the rally that the acquittal was made by state institutions whose name should be called justice, adding that they are anything but.

"This is the institution that allowed evil to be free, for evil to spread and destroy the people of this country. This is the institution that, by justifying itself with a lack of evidence and shifting responsibility from one to another, wants to justify its incompetence or perhaps some pressure, so we wonder who and what is behind this!?", Gobović pointed out, stating that with this act the state has reached a bottom from which it cannot get out.

The wife of the murdered Ljubiša Mrdak, Slavica Mrdak, said that she feels the same today as she did three and a half years ago when they were told in front of the Clinical Hospital Center in Podgorica that he did not survive.

"We expected to receive a kind of consolation and that we would end up with a kind of suffering. We did not receive consolation, we received all of you who are here with us today," Mrdak pointed out.