CETINJE, Montenegro (Reuters) – 1000’s of Montenegrins gathered within the city of Cetinje on Sunday to commemorate the 12 victims of a mass taking pictures final week, with many accusing police of not having performed sufficient to cease the gunman’s rampage.
In against the law that shocked the small Balkan nation, 45-year-old Aco Martinovic went on a taking pictures spree that lasted for hours on Wednesday. When he was lastly cornered by police, he turned his gun on himself, and later died of his accidents.
Folks lit candles on Sunday in entrance of a church in Cetinje near the place the taking pictures started and stood in silence for 12 minutes in honour of the victims.
“We came here to demand answers as to why there was no timely reaction and who will take the responsibility for that,” Maja Gardasevic informed Reuters.
Many Montenegrins are indignant over what they see as sluggish reform of an understaffed and under-resourced police drive and bureaucratic and political wrangling throughout the authorities.
It was the second mass taking pictures in lower than three years in Cetinje, which lies some 38 km (24 miles) west of the capital, Podgorica. In August 2022, a gunman killed 10 folks, together with two youngsters, earlier than being shot useless.
“This is simply my protest against the disorganisation of the police. They learned nothing after the first tragedy,” mentioned native resident Aleksandra Jablan.
Within the capital on Friday, protesters demanded the resignation of high officers, together with Inside Minister Danilo Saranovic and the pinnacle of the police.
Montenegro, a small Adriatic republic of 633,000 folks, has a deeply rooted gun tradition.
Like different Western Balkan nations – Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia – Montenegro is awash with unlawful weapons, principally from the bloody wars of the Nineteen Nineties.
