Montenegro claims it foiled Russian plan to assassinate Prime Minister
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[quote]A special prosecutor investigating an alleged plot to sway last month's election in Montenegro said on Sunday a group of "Russian nationalists" had planned to assassinate Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic to get an opposition party into power.
Montenegro, a former Yugoslav republic, has been abuzz with conspiracy theories since the Oct. 19 election when authorities arrested 20 Serb citizens at the border with Serbia, accused of planning armed attacks against state institutions.
Opposition parties had said the suspected plot was fabricated and accused Djukanovic of using the security services to help extend his quarter century of dominance over Montenegro.
Before the vote, Djukanovic said Russia was financing the opposition in order to derail Montenegro's imminent NATO membership. Opposition parties, many also pro-NATO, deny this.
No opposition members were available for comment.
"The organizers of this criminal group were nationalists from Russia whose initial premise and conclusion was that the government in Montenegro led my Milo Djukanovic cannot be changed in election and that it should be toppled by force," Milivoje Katnic, special prosecutor for organized crime, said on Sunday.
The aim was to assassinate the prime minister and to help an opposition party take over parliament, Katnic said. He did not name the party suspected of having been linked with the group.
"State authorities revealed that a criminal group had been formed on the territories of Montenegro, Serbia and Russia with a task to commit an act of terrorism," he said.
A person who was a skilled long-distance shot was sought to carry out the assassination, Katnic said.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37890683[/url]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-montenegro-election-prosecutor-idUSKBN1310R8?il=0[/url]
This is because the current government is in accession talks with NATO. Having been formally invited in.
I saw a news article were Serbia also confirmed the plot and expelled Russians.
[url]http://weaponsman.com/?p=36292[/url]
[quote][A]n “unprecedented massacre” had been prevented by the arrests. … The plan was for several individuals to enter the parliamentary building in the capital, Podgorica, wearing uniforms of Montenegro’s elite security services, and subdue the guards inside. They would then open fire on unarmed opposition supporters gathering outside the parliament awaiting election results. Finally, they would kidnap the Prime Minister, and either declare the election invalid, or somehow hope to throw it to the opposition.[/quote]
[quote][Serbian Prime Minister, and initially, coup-attempt skeptic] Vucic confirmed that there had in fact been a plot to assassinate Djukanovic. Another set of [Montenegrin] special forces uniforms and €120,000 in cash had been found in Serbia, Vucic said, and several other Serbian nationals had been arrested. He added that no politicians, in either Serbia or Montenegro, were involved in the planning, but rather he vaguely gestured at “foreign services, both from the West and from the East”, and said that those that have been arrested would be dealt with.
On Thursday [27 Oct 16], another bombshell landed… Serbia had secretly expelled several Russian citizens in connection with the Montenegro plot. … [T]he Serbs arrested earlier had in their possession several devices allowing for encrypted communication, as well as some unspecified sophisticated technology used to continuously track the location of Djukanovic. Some of the arrested Serbs had reportedly fought on the Russian side in Donbas, in Ukraine.[/quote]
A disclaimer to put in here before things get started. From the BBC article.
[quote]There is no evidence the Russian state was involved.
"We don't have any evidence that the state of Russia is involved in any sense... but we have evidence that two nationalists from Russia were organisers," Mr Katnic said.[/quote]
I thought Montenegro was more towards Italy geographically? Still, shouldn't be a surprise, given how the US continuously tried to assasinate Fidel Castro.
and the nationalists in Russia have very close ties to the Kremlin. More so in the last years.
So yeah...might be....
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i dont know what to believe
Montenegro is in a massive political crisis due to 4 terms prime minister, borderline de-facto dictator, is trying join NATO and EU, while big chunk of the country is pro-Serbian and pro-Russian. That same chunk is still pissed off that Montenegro seceded from Serbia( Montenegro independence referendum went 55.5 to 45.5) in 2006.
Things also gotten worse when Montenegro PM began warming up relations with Croatia and this year giving official apology and regret of Montenegrin involvement in invading Croatia in 1990's and committing war crimes along with Serbia. This did not sit well with hard-liners at all.
[QUOTE=CroGamer002;51319822]Montenegro is in a massive political crisis due to 4 terms prime minister, borderline de-facto dictator, is trying join NATO and EU, while big chunk of the country is pro-Serbian and pro-Russian. That same chunk is still pissed off that Montenegro seceded from Serbia( Montenegro independence referendum went 55.5 to 45.5) in 2006.
Things also gotten worse when Montenegro PM began warming up relations with Croatia and this year giving official apology and regret of Montenegrin involvement in invading Croatia in 1990's and committing war crimes along with Serbia. This did not sit well with hard-liners at all.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit I had no idea he was Prime Minister on and off for such a long time. Some dictators are better at hiding it than others.
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