(3 Jan 2025)
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Podgorica, Montenegro – 3 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of people standing in front of government building in Podgorica
2. Woman putting roses on barriers
3. Various of people standing in silence
4. Mid of woman holding banner with pictures of killed children
5. Close of roses on barriers
6. Police standing at entrance of government building
7. People in front of government building
8. SOUNDBITE (Montenegrin) Radoje Cerovic, protester:
"Amateurism, improvisation and populist promises have tragic, truly tragic consequences, and I think this is just one of those consequences.”
9. Various of people standing in the rain
10. SOUNDBITE (Montenegrin) Miodrag Strugar, protester:
"Those in power must learn that resignation is a moral act, that when they are at the top of a system that has not given an answer, and that has led to this crime and tragedy, they must learn to resign. If they do not want to do that, we, the citizens who pay them (wages), must fire them.”
11. Various of roses on barriers
12. Police lights with crowd of protesters behind
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people stood in silence during a protest in front of Montenegro’s government building on Friday, following a shooting rampage in which a gunman killed a dozen people in the western town of Cetinje on Wednesday.
Protesters critical of the government braved rainy conditions, standing under umbrellas and placing red roses on the metal security barricades in front of the government building.
The 45-year-old gunman, identified as Aco Martinović, is believed to have snapped after a bar brawl, and went home to get his weapon before launching a bloody rampage at several locations late Wednesday afternoon.
He eventually shot himself in the head and died shortly after.
The dead included seven men, three women — among them his sister — and two children, born in 2011 and 2016. Four more people were seriously wounded and remain hospitalized.
The shooting has fueled concerns about the level of violence in Montenegrin society, which is politically divided. It also raised questions about the readiness of state institutions to tackle the problems, including gun ownership.
On Friday a top-level meeting in Montenegro looked for ways to curb illegal weapons.
An emergency session of Montenegro’s National Security Council is expected to call for a new gun law and urgent actions to confiscate what are believed to be abundant illegal weapons in possession of Montenegro’s 620,000 citizens.
The Adriatic Sea nation has a deeply-rooted gun culture. State television broadcaster RTCG reported that Montenegro is sixth in the world when it comes to the number of illegal weapons per capita.
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