Around 30 citizens of Montenegro were detained last night at the Belgrade airport, after they exited a plane that flew in from Podgorica, after a delay of several hours, an hour and some after midnight.
Around 30 citizens of Montenegro were detained last night at the Belgrade airport, after they exited a plane that flew in from Podgorica, after a delay of several hours, an hour and some after midnight.
According to information conveyed to “Vijesti” by the editor of the “Vijesti” portal, Dušan Cicmil, and his legal representative, lawyer Miroje Jovanović, the passengers, exclusively men with Montenegrin documents, had their passports confiscated and were conducted to a special room, without any explanation as to why their movement was restricted.
According to the newspaper’s findings, the passengers, 28 of them, were taken to a special room, where there were also several citizens of Montenegro who had landed from Barcelona.
They called them out in groups of five and moved them to another room, allegedly for additional checks.
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Almost at the same time when the editorial office contacted Cicmil, who confirmed the information about separating the passengers for additional control, one of the female passengers conveyed to the journalist that lawyer Miroje Jovanović was also on the flight, whom the “Vijesti” journalist then called to provide him with legal assistance.
“Sometime around two o’clock after midnight, ‘Vijesti’ journalist Dušan Cicmil called me and informed me that he was also separated for additional control, without being told why. I asked him to announce the arrival of a lawyer, but he was told that they could not pass into 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 could not pass, I asked them to call the shift supervisor, and then I called the prosecutor on duty so they could explain to me why they were restricting the movement of my client and other passengers. Without any explanation, after about ten minutes, the passengers started coming out,” Jovanović said.
The lawyer emphasized that even before Cicmil called him, while he was passing through the gate, he asked the police officers why they were separating only men with Montenegrin documents, and that he was told they had some “tip-off.”
“The point was proven by the fact that they released them immediately. If the tip-off had been relevant, they had six hours, which was how long the flight was delayed, to check everyone from the passenger list. They obviously tried to make the same story as in Tivat,” Jovanović said.
Cicmil told “Vijesti” last night that Montenegrin citizens, who landed in Belgrade from Barcelona, told him that their flight had been planned for Podgorica, but that they were initially rerouted to the airport in Pristina, where they could not land, which is why they ended up in the Serbian capital.
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Source: N1; Photo: Aerodrom Nikola Tesla Beograd