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access roads to Pljevlja, threatening to blow up the Djurdjevića
Tara bridge, and other acts committed on 8 and
9 August 1992. All these acts, the prosecutor said, constituted
massive and organized resistance to law enforcement
and other state agencies and their measures, created
a feeling of insecurity in the public, and were
directed against the constitutional order. The counts of
violent behavior included the harassment and beating
of Muhamed Hrastovina on 27 July 1992 by Dačević and
a group of armed and uniformed men, and the death
threats made against a police inspector, Milan Cvijović.
The prosecutor also alleged that at an SRS meeting on
17 August, Dačević urged about 200 people to use force
to release about 10 persons who were at the time up
before the Magistrates Court for inciting disorders during
the Radical protests in Pljevlja. Heeding his words,
those present at the meeting proceeded immediately to
the Pljevlja courthouse and brought out the persons
charged.
Speaking of the incident, Magistrates Court President
Šerif Čengić said police had filed misdemeanor charges
against 10 persons who had been inciting the rioting in
Pljevlja. He was waiting for the suspects to be brought
into the courtroom when he heard a commotion outside
the building. ”Security was tight but, in my opinion,
not tight enough. There were about 1,000 people in
front of the building. There was nothing the police
could do. The crowd was exerting pressure, shouting
‘Ustashe’ 37 and ‘Red gangsters’ and booing. I was on the
phone with the republican Magistrates Court when one
of my staff informed me that the suspects were gone.“ 38
37 Ustashe, extreme Croatian nationalists during World War II.
38 ”Invisible Liberators,“ Pobjeda, Podgorica, 19 August 1992.
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