A map of Greater Serbia appeared during protests against the actions of the Montenegrin authorities
Protests by Orthodox believers in Montenegro, which have not subsided for the second month, will continue until the authorities repeal the law allowing the confiscation of churches and monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
This was stated by the rector of the Cetinje Seminary, Archpriest Gojko Perovic. He rejected the ruling regime's accusations of preparing a pro-Serbian coup.
“Let the law be repealed tomorrow and there will be no religious processions. The background is political, because this law was adopted in parliament and can be repealed,” Perovic said.
At the same time, official structures are trying in every possible way to provoke a conflict, including by arranging the detention of dissatisfied people, members of the opposition movement and their relatives.
One of the leaders of the Montenegrin opposition, Milan Knezevic, demanded the publication of footage of the search of his house and the detention of his family, including his 70-year-old mother. According to him, the police said they were looking for explosive devices and weapons, but in the end the security forces took a saber from the politician’s house, which he once received as a gift from the leader of Dagestan. Knezhevich regards the search as an act of intimidation.
“The search of the house began at about 5:20 with them breaking down the front door and pointing guns at my mother, and there were no witnesses. My uncle's brother, in the presence of his three daughters, wife and mother, lay on the floor for an hour at gunpoint. The eldest daughter has been treated for cancer for seven years and underwent chemotherapy the day before the invasion. The middle teenage daughter lost consciousness. Their aunt, a 71-year-old woman, was squeezed into the room and locked. And my cousins ended up in the Emergency Center, which is confirmed by medical records,” Knezevic said.
He believes the police were acting on orders from Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, who wants to provoke the opposition into retaliating in order to have grounds for banning the prayers and lithiums sweeping the country.
Dragan Vukic, secretary of the executive committee of the Socialist People's Party, said that instead of a law concerning the property of the Church, Montenegro should first of all pass a different law - forcing officials to explain the origin of their property.
“If we had such a law, they would not dare to attack the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church,” the politician said.
Serbian youth, despite opposition from the police, painted the sports ground in the colors of the national flag
Let us note that protests continue not only in Montenegro - the day before, residents of Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska, which is part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, came out to a rally.
Interestingly, one of the protesters’ posters depicted a map of a unified Serbian state - without borders between Serbia, Kosovo, the Republika Srpska and Montenegro.
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