A 45-year-old man opened fire in a restaurant located in southern Montenegro this Wednesday, January 1.
According to the police, he killed “several people” and fled.
A second assessment reported that 10 people, including two minors, had died.
Drama on this first day of the year 2025. In Montenegro, a shooting occurred in a restaurant in a town in the south of this Balkan country, neighboring Croatia, public radio and television reported, citing a police press release. . According to this document, the armed man is still on the run, after having killed “several people”.
A suspect on the run
Later in the evening, the country’s Interior Minister, Danilo Saranovic, clarified the toll, explaining that it was ultimately at least 10 people who were killed. Among them, two minors. According to the politician, they were from the family that owned the restaurant where the shooting took place. The owner of the establishment was also killed.
According to the first elements communicated by the government and the police, it was a fight that went wrong and the suspect also killed members of his own family, according to the minister who spoke of an event “private”. In a speech in the evening, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic announced a three-day national mourning, on January 2, 3 and 4, and specified that four people had been seriously injured.
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The 45-year-old man is wanted by the police and the army who have invited residents of the town of Cetinje where the tragedy took place to stay at home. Although the police seem to favor the hypothesis of a non-mafia crime, organized crime and corruption have long affected Montenegro, and the town of Cetinje has been particularly affected in recent months.
