19 minutes agoReactions in Montenegro following police attack on an Albanian professor
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Police in Montenegro announced that the video published on social networks on 21 February, in which the mistreatment of an Albanian citizen by Montenegrin police members was recorded on January 15th. The incident, according to authorities, occurred at the Sukobine-Muriqan border crossing near Ulcinj. Official measures and actions have been taken [...]
Measures and official actions that have resulted from the discovery of the identity of all actors involved in the event mentioned and the responsibility of police officials” are being determined, the report said.
On 16 January, the Democratic Union of Albanians, Mehmed Zenka's party, said a member of Montenegro's Police had “mishandled an Albanian national”.
Along with this announcement, this party also presented a video published by Albanian media, asking authorities to find out what had happened at the border crossing.
The Democratic Union of Albanians appealed to competent bodies and [Montenegro's] prime minister, Dritan] Abazovic to take appropriate measures to illuminate the police's use of force against unidentified persons and urgently clarify this” situation, the report said.
The video was published by Albanian media on February 15th and by Podgorica's Podgorica vremeplov on February 21st. These are two different videos of the same event, but the second video is longer and clearer after being filmed closely.
In the published video, at one point it's seen and heard how a man from the vehicle tells cops that I've done nothing “. The “ule phone” is also heard in the video as the police violently pull the foreign citizen out of the car.
On 21 February, the Albanian Alternative party said it was a terrible, devastating, terrible incident for Montenegro” occurred just days before the planned joint assembly of the two governments.
The Albanian and Montenegrin government will hold a joint meeting Monday, February 27th.
The Albanian alternative, the party of the mayor of the Tuzi municipality, Nick Gilosha, strongly condemned the incident that took place at the Sukobin border point on the border between Montenegro and Albania.
According to the statement issued by the Alternative party, the target of this incident was Petraq Milo, university professor and former adviser for public finance and monetary policy of Albania's prime minister. / REL
