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5.5.2. The beating of Jakub Durgut
Jakub Durgut (born 1959) was grazing his sheep near
his home in Ograde on 1 November when police from
Pljevlja arrived. Among them Durgut recognized Goran
Zindović, who said he was the patrol leader and that he
had a warrant to search the house. Zindović added that
the police had received a tip that Durgut was hiding a
rifle in his house.
Things were tense from the start so I wasn’t able to tell
exactly how many police there were. I said right away
that I didn’t have any guns. But they attacked me and
started beating me - punching and kicking me and hitting
me with rifle butts. I think the policeman whose last
name is Šubarić was the worst. He took a grenade from
his pocket and threatened to put it in my mouth. I fell
down after the first few blows. They kept using the worst
swear words and asking things like what did we need
weapons for. 65
Durgut told the HLC that Šubarić ripped a gold chain
from his neck as he was beating him. After tormenting
him for half an hour, the police led him in the direction
of Pljevlja. They had traversed only some 200 meters
when they met Radenko Danilović, a police reservist
who was Durgut’s school friend. Danilović succeeded
in persuading the police to let Durgut go, saying he
knew he was a good man and had no weapons.
5.5.3. Arrested and imprisoned
Humanitarian Law Center
Čerjenci, a village seven kilometers from Kovačevići,
was home to 11 Muslim families until the war in Bosnia
65 Statement by Jakub Durgut, June 2001, HLC documentation.
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