Montenegro has charged 14 people — including two Russians and two Montenegrin opposition leaders — over their alleged involvement in an attempted coup in October 2016, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
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14 people, including 2 Russians, charged with attempted coup in Montenegro
Fourteen people — including 2 Russians — have been charged with attempting to overthrow the Montenegro government in 2016.
Montenegro's PM Djukanovic attends a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.
The high court in the capital, Podgorica, said the 14 people were charged with "creating a criminal organization."
The two Russians were also charged with "terrorism."
Montenegrin authorities said the 14 accused attempted to take over parliament, assassinate then-Prime Minister
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would have forced their way inside and, during the confusion, opened fire on the crowd "so that citizens would think that the official police are shooting at them."
“Had it been executed, such a scenario would have had an unforeseeable consequence," he told The Telegraph.
The prosecutor said that he had "obtained evidence that the plan was not only to deprive of liberty, but also to deprive of life the then prime minister."
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