Thousands attend vigil in Podgorica for 12 victims of Cetinje shooting rampage

Thousands of radical person attended a candlelight vigil to retrieve the 12 victims of a wide shooting successful Montengro.

It happened connected Wednesday successful the cardinal municipality of Cetinje erstwhile a antheral started a shooting rampage aft a barroom brawl, sidesplitting 12 and wounding astatine slightest 4 others.

Two children were among the victims and the man, named arsenic 45-year-old Aco Martinović, died aft shooting himself successful the head.

This was the 2nd specified incidental successful the municipality successful the past 3 years.

"I consciousness precise bad. I can't judge that we failed truthful overmuch arsenic a society. We failed arsenic radical too. Why didn't they effort to prevention him before? Now it's excessively late. It's conscionable excessively late, I don't cognize what to say, it's precise hard. It's precise hard for our society, for each of us," said pensioner Mira Skoric who attended the vigil successful the superior Podgorica.

Police Commissioner Lazar Šćepanović described the shooting arsenic "one of the biggest tragedies successful the past of Montenegro."

"Most of the victims were radical helium knew, his closest friends and relatives," including the shooter's sister, Šćepanović said.

"This transgression enactment wasn't planned oregon organised. It was unpredictable."

National mourning

The authorities has declared 3 days of nationalist mourning starting connected Thursday and each planned New Year's festivities person been cancelled passim the country.

Visiting Cetinje connected Thursday, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announced a tightening of rules connected weapons possession and said the authorities is considering an outright ban.

"This is simply a existent calamity wherever we person to inquire ourselves who tin person weapons successful Montenegro, some sporting and hunting, we recognize each that, but the criteria indispensable beryllium tightened arsenic overmuch arsenic possible," helium said.

The tiny Adriatic Sea nation, which has a colonisation of astir 620,000 people, is known for its weapon civilization and galore radical traditionally person weapons.

In August 2022 successful Cetinje, which is Montenegro's historical capital, an attacker killed 10 people, including 2 children, earlier helium was changeable and killed by a passerby.

Police person said that the fishy successful Wednesday's shooting received a suspended condemnation successful 2005 for convulsive behaviour and had appealed his latest condemnation for amerciable weapons possession.

Montenegrin media person reported that helium was known for erratic and convulsive behaviour.

"Instead of vacation joy...we person been gripped by sadness implicit the nonaccomplishment of guiltless lives," Montenegro's President Jakov Milatović said successful a New Year's Day station connected X.

"I americium stunned and shaken by this tragedy."