At least ten people died in a shooting on Wednesday 1is January 2025 in a restaurant in Bajice, a village in southern Montenegro, announced the Minister of the Interior. Evoking an event ” private “Danilo Saranovic told the press that the suspect had “took the lives of at least ten people, including two minors from the Vuletic family”who owns the restaurant where the shooting took place.
“In the afternoon, in a restaurant in Bajice, A. M., 45, killed several people using firearms” Then “ran away”the police previously announced. “ All police forces, special units, all available forces are in Cetinje. We are in pursuit of the attacker and we are on the right track”detailed Prime Minister Milojko Spajic at the Public broadcasting (RTCG).
The Montenegrin government has declared three days of national mourning, starting Thursday, according to an official statement.
Already a shooting in this village in 2022
According to the police, the incident is not “not the result of a confrontation between groups belonging to organized crime”. However, she urged residents to stay at home and said she had deployed special forces to the area.
-In 2022 in the same village of Cetinje, a man killed ten residents in broad daylight, including two children, before being shot dead by a passer-by according to the prosecution, in what remains one of the deadliest incidents in the history of this small Balkan country.
Montenegro is plagued by two major scourges, organized crime and corruption, which the authorities have promised to tackle, under pressure from the European Union, which the country would like to join. Mass shootings are rare there, however.
