Latest news Man in Montenegro shoots ten people - national mourning
Three days of national mourning have been declared in the Balkan country following an act of violence in Montenegro that left at least ten people dead. This was ordered by the government in the capital Podgorica during the night.
02.01.2025, 09:41
SDA
According to the authorities, a 45-year-old man used a firearm to kill at least ten people, including two children, in the small Montenegrin town of Cetinje. He then shot himself dead. Four other people suffered serious injuries in the incident on Wednesday.
According to media reports, the perpetrator got into an argument with another customer in a pub. He then went home, picked up a gun and returned to the pub to kill and injure several people. He then ran away and shot more people in various places in Cetinje, including the two children.
What details did the police give?
The perpetrator then went home and shot himself in the head after the police surrounded his house and asked him to surrender, said the Montenegrin interim police chief Lazar Scepanovic at a press conference. The suspect died shortly before midnight on the way to hospital, he added.
The man had already been sentenced to three months in prison in 2022 for illegal possession of weapons, Scepanovic said. As the verdict he appealed against did not subsequently become final, the sentence has not been carried out.
In Montenegro and other Balkan countries, many people are armed and often do not have a gun license. Cetinje, a town of 14,000 inhabitants, was the capital of the former Kingdom of Montenegro until 1918. In August 2022, a gunman shot ten people there before he himself was killed by an armed passer-by.
