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Square dedicated to victims of wrong-headed court decisions

Ilustracija (Foto: Savjet Evrope)

By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist

In an organized clerical-fascist state, which Montenegro still is not (more precisely: it’s not organized), Radoman and Cirgic would simply be shot.

In a less regulated one (well, that level of clerical fascism, Montenegro could – and will – reach quickly), the two of them would be imprisoned in a labor camp.

But where everything, including clerical fascism, is severely plagued by sloppiness and slander, the state must figure out how to punish political opponents – before the Vlachs come up with it.

In such a state, courts do not distribute justice. It exists to protect those in power and take revenge on the disobedient. In such a state and in such courts, the law is only a heavy beating in the hands of authorities, and the judicial system is the same as the army and the police: force. By the way, such courts are governed by those who are for “Njegos’s traditional Montenegro”. Yes, they rely on power. And stink of inhumanity, is that right.

Now … as far as law is concerned, I’m Kafka-esque. Law is pure, arbitrary terror. Who cares about the rule of law, may he live in it.

I was involved in court proceedings and I know what it looks like. Above each Montenegrin courtroom should be an inscription: ‘Those who enter here should forget all hope.’ Goodbye hope, goodbye reason, goodbye ethics – these are Montenegrin courts. There is no such disgusting verdict that cannot be substantiated by an appropriate legal procedure and an article of the law and the constitution. Well, Montenegrin courts do just that: they pass “legally grounded” disgusting verdicts.

The one announced to Radoman and Cirgic was obviously Kafka-esque. You know everything, there’s no need to repeat. But, there’s another “dimension of this case” that looks interesting to me.

It took the itchy, dirty, smelly, rotten and disgusting Montenegrin judiciary 12 years to pass a verdict in a case that requires an IQ of more than 65 and a half minutes of free time. What’s the matter and who stole from who is not a question of law, but of common sense. When you have such a case, and you are obliged to judge contrary to reason and justice, what should you do? Clearly: you decide on the case of Cirgic and Radoman procedurally. If the merits are clear, you fuck off the merits, you don’t deal with it. You stumble the victim on one of the countless procedures that exist just to be abused – and the thing is solved.

And it’s solved so that the victims, in the name of accumulated court costs, now have to pay 42 thousand euros. And why didn’t our good court wait a little longer, another year or two, and rounded the amount to 45K? Isn’t it clear that the judiciary, which hasn’t been able to rule in this or any other case for 12 years, should dissolve and consider alternative, more efficient and closer ways of resolving disputes: throwing the dice, fortune-telling via Turkish coffee grounds or pulling out the shortest straw?

Isn’t it clear that the judiciary, which has not been able to rule for 12 years, has no right to ask for money for “court costs”, but instead, in the name of wasting time, energy and nerves, not 42 thousand but millions should be paid to those who have been f*cked in their courtrooms for a decade?

Isn’t it finally clear that the Montenegrin judiciary, just like the omnipotence and supranational status of the Church of Serbia in this country, was not established by the DF and Zdravko, but by the DPS. This wrong-headed court decision has produced so many injustices and victims that every town in MNE should have a “square dedicated to victims of wrong court decisions”.

The moment the DPS confronts the court trash they themselves produced will be, what can I tell you, a moment of poetic justice.

 

 

 

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