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Three persons from Bijelo Polje apprehended on suspicion of flag desecration

 

Bogdan Ćinćur (20), Rastko Ćetković (22) and Ivan Bugarin (20), all of them from Bijelo Polje, were apprehended today on suspicion of destroying the Montenegrin national flag and thus damaging the reputation of the state. They will be further processed along with the relevant criminal charge, the National Police stated. Head of the Montenegrin police forces, Mr Veselin Veljović, noted that the police won’t allow the desecration of national symbols.

Namely, the offenders destroyed and threw away 13 flags of Montenegro that decorated light poles in Bijelo Polje on 23 May, somewhere between 3 am and 3.20 am.

Veselin Veljović

 

The president of the Municipality of Bijelo Polje, Mr Petar Smolović, strongly condemned this, as he called it, act of vandalism, as well as some political parties.

 

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