Montenegrin police dispersed young Orthodox graffiti artists with tear gas
In the suburban village of the capital Podgorica - Donje Gorica, police did not allow young people to apply graffiti on the wall in the form of the chapel of Metropolitan Peter II Njegos in Lovcen.
The restoration of the historical chapel was the intention of the late Metropolitan Amfilohije, which was opposed by Montenegrin nationalists, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Graffiti in the shape of a chapel was painted on a wall in Donje Gorica on Monday evening, prompting a complaint from local nationalists to the police, who arrived at the scene and arrested four Orthodox street artists.
The next morning, utility workers painted over the drawing, but after some time the inscription “We will return everything” appeared in its place.
Apparently, the police were in ambush, lying in wait for the graffiti artists, because as soon as they arrived at the scene along with a support group last night, a special unit in helmets and helmets immediately appeared there. To disperse the young people, law enforcement officers used tear gas.
At one time he planned to restore the Peter II Njegos Chapel in Lovcen deceased recently Metropolitan of Montenegro and Primorsky SOC Amfilohije (Radovich).
“We want to restore the church in Lovcen,” claimed Bishop Amphilohiy in September of this year. “We will return to this, I hope, next year...”
However, the intentions of the Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church provoked a sharply negative reaction from the so-called “Montenegrin patriots,” which include nationalists who support the regime of Montenegrin dictator Milo Djukanovic, his Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the schismatic Montenegrin Orthodox Church.
Peter II Petrovich-Njegos is one of the representatives of the famous dynasty of theocratic rulers of Montenegro, who combined spiritual and state titles. He was also known as a poet and a great ally of Russia, in every possible way strengthening the ties between the Montenegrin and Russian states. He never separated himself and his people from the Serbian nation; on the contrary, he emphasized in every possible way the belonging of Montenegrins to the Serbs, in particular in his poems
In his will, Peter II Njegos asked to be buried on Mount Lovcen in the chapel he established. After his death in 1851, they were afraid to carry out the deceased’s will for fear of attack from the Turks, but in 1855, when the danger had passed, they carried it out.
Historic Njegos Chapel
In 1942, the chapel was damaged by Italian occupiers. In 1951, the communist authorities of Yugoslavia decided to demolish the chapel, building in its place a mausoleum designed by the Croatian architect Ivan Mestrovic in a style combining motifs of ancient paganism and monumental socialist realism.
Mausoleum of Negosh
The Montenegrin-Primorsky Metropolis of the SOC plans to restore the chapel, according to Njegos’s behest, without destroying the mausoleum.
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