6 minutes agoNew tensions between Belgrade and Podgorica, about 30 Montenegrins stopped at Belgrade airport
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(an hour ago)About 30 Montenegrin citizens were detained at Belgrade Airport last night after landing from a plane that had flown from Podgorica around midnight, after a several-hour delay.
According to information provided for “View” By portal editor “Vijest”, Dusan Cicmil, and his legal representative, lawyer Miroje Jovanovic, passengers, exclusively men with Montenegrin documents, have been seized passports and sent to a separate room, without any explanation of why the movement has been restricted.
According to the newspaper's findings, passengers, 28 of them, have been sent to a separate room, where several Montenegrin citizens had descended from Barcelona.
They were called five out of five and moved into another room, allegedly for additional checks.
Almost at the same time that the editorial team contacted Cicmil, who confirmed the information about passengers being separated for additional control, one of the passengers told the journalist that lawyer Miroje Jovanovic, whom “Vijesti” later called for legal assistance.
About two o'clock after midnight, Vijestı journalist Dusan Cicmil called me and informed me that he too was separated for additional control, without telling him why. I asked him to announce the lawyer's arrival, but he was told they could not pass through the border control section. I went back to that section, showed the police officer my lawyer's ID and asked to speak with my client. When I was told that I couldn't pass, I asked him to call my shift supervisor, and then I called the prosecutor on duty to explain why they were restricting the movement of my client and other passengers. With no explanation, after about ten minutes passengers began to descend”, Jovanovic said.
The lawyer stressed that even before Cicmil called, as he passed through the gate, he had asked police why they were isolating only the men with Montenegrin documents and had told him they had some kind of “quality”.
“Pica was proven to be allowed to go immediately. If the advice had been relevant, they would have had six hours, as long as the flight delayed, to check everyone on the passenger list. They undoubtedly tried to invent the same story as in Tivat”, Jovanovic said.
Cicmil told “Vijest” that Montenegrin citizens, who landed in Belgrade from Barcelona, told him that their flight was scheduled for Podgorica, but that they were initially diverted to the Pristina airport, where they could not land, so they ended up in the Serbian capital.
