All indicted for attempted terrorism and coup d'état in Montenegro found guilty
N1 Info 09.05.2019 | N1 Belgrade
Podgorica Higher Court found guilty all the accused of attempted terrorism and coup d'état on the general election day in Montenegro in 2016, and handed down jail sentences, except in one case, N1 reported.
According to the charge sheet, the group of Russian and Serb nationals, together with Montenegrin opposition politicians, planned the arrest and murder of the then Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, now the coastal republic's president, and forcible change of power to prevent the country from joining NATO. The two Russians Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov, who the prosecutors said were Russian spies, were accused of terrorism and sentenced in