The Court of Appeal of Montenegro overturned the sentence of a Serb general for a fake coup d'etat
The first instance verdict on the “coup d’état,” allegedly aimed at overthrowing the previous leadership of Montenegro, led by current President Milo Djukanovic, was overturned by the country’s Court of Appeal.
This was reported to Vijesti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Serb, retired gendarmerie general Bratislav Dikic, sentenced to eight years in prison in the fake “coup d'etat case”, will leave prison in Spuz today. This was announced by the lawyer of the political prisoner Dusan Jovovic.
By the decision of the Court of Appeal, which overturned the verdict of the first instance, charges were also dropped against the leaders of the Montenegrin Serb Democratic Front party, Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic, sentenced in December last year to five years in prison, but had parliamentary immunity.
In 2016, the Montenegrin nationalist regime of Milo Djukanovic accused all pro-Serbian and pro-Russian forces in the country of attempting a coup and assassinating the dictator.
The investigation established that patriotic forces from Serbia and Russia actively “participated” in the case. The flywheel of repression launched after this openly resembled the notorious witch hunt, since sufficient evidence was never presented to the public.
As a result, by the end of the trial, the number of defendants was greatly reduced, including three Serbian citizens and two Russian citizens, four of whom (two Russians and two Serbs) were convicted in absentia, while the Serb Bratislav Dikic was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Dikic during an anti-NATO protest in Niš
Cancellation of the results of the fake trial became possible only after the victory in the parliamentary elections of the forces opposing the Djukanovic clique, which formed the government of Montenegro.
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