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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
We strongly support the right to peaceful, non-violent assembly and freedom of expression as fundamental values of a democratic society – the US Embassy told Portal ETV.
They said that “citizens should not suffer the consequences for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and expression of opinion”.
- The US Embassy in Podgorica generally does not comment on individual statements by politicians or political parties. We call on all political actors, civil society and the media to show respect for the victims of the tragic events in Cetinje and their families, focus on community recovery and work together to learn from this tragedy and ensure greater safety for the citizens of Montenegro – the US Embassy told Portal ETV.
On January 1, the Montenegrin Royal Capital witnessed its second mass murder in less than two and a half years, when a crazed killer killed 12 people, including two boys, two brothers. Six later committed suicide.
The police response to this crisis was, from the point of view of both security experts and a large part of the Montenegrin public, extremely inadequate, which is why the informal student group “Kamo śutra” organized protests in Cetinje and Podgorica. One of their demands is that the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the security sector Aleksa Bečić and the Minister of the Interior Danilo Šaranović resign.
This has enraged the party headed by Bečić – the Democrats, from where they have been waging a disgusting campaign for days against the student group “Kamo śutra”, as well as the citizens who supported them at the protests, trying to discredit them.
In defense of their political leaders, they claim that the organization of the protests and the demands for their resignations is the former president of the state Milo Đukanović, “together with his criminal clans”, as well as the Bemaks company, businessman Aco Mijajlović, as well as the Kavački, Škaljar and other criminal clans in Montenegro. They even engage in forgery, and thus published a photo of one of the protest participants, claiming that she is Mijajlović’s daughter, thus trying to substantiate their claims that he is behind the protests. It turned out that she is not his daughter.
A very dangerous statement in response to the protest organized in Podgorica, in which they accused the organizers of being behind them by the mafia – the Kavački and Škaljar criminal clans, was signed by the officials of the Democrats - Boris Bogdanović, Zdenka Popović, Nikola Rovčanin, Anđela Vojinović, Duško Stjepović, Albin Ćeman and Momčilo Leković.
A new statement followed the protest on January 6th, this time with the thesis that the organization was led by Đukanović and former police officer Zoran Lazović, who is in custody on charges of collaborating with the mafia.
In that statement, they directly targeted civic activist Maja Gardašević in an attempt to use her to prove the thesis that Đukanović was behind the protest, because there are photos of her with Đukanović at some events. Gardašević announced criminal charges.
-...we will remind you that the speeches were given by Milo Đukanović's top official, while the gathering was attended by lawyers for the drug cartel, then the closest relatives of the fugitives who are being charged by the SDT with monstrous crimes, as well as managers of certain drug cartel catering dens - it is written, among other things, in the statement of the Democrats from January 6th.
As "evidence" that the student group "Kamo śutra" is behind Đukanović, they also stated that the group's Instagram page was created in January 2025...
The security situation in Montenegro has been seriously undermined, and two mass murders in less than two and a half years in which as many as 22 people were killed, including four boys, are an alarm that an urgent reform of the police organization is needed. Especially in light of the fact that a mass murderer in the Cetinje neighborhood of Medovina, two and a half years ago, killed his neighbors in full view of the police who did not react, and the mass murderer who killed 12 people on January 1st evaded the police pursuit for six hours.
