Dusko Roganovic lost both his legs in a horrific explosion near the main bus station in Herceg Novi at about 2:40pm yesterday. The remote controlled bomb was planted under his golf 5 car and was activated while the vehicle was in motion, Dnevne Novine newspaper reports.
According to police records, Roganovic is a person of interest and, allegedly, is close to the Kavac criminal clan.
Criminal Police Department officers, a high prosecutor and forensic experts conducted the accident investigation.
According to the available information, it is suspected that the plastic explosive was placed in the middle of the car, near the driver’s seat. Everything points to the assumption that the executioner was in the vicinity waiting for Roganovic.
Also, investigators had no doubt that a serious organised criminal group was behind the attack and that Roganovic had been closely watched for a long time, including yesterday.
For the time being, there is no tangible data that would point to trace the perpetrators.
Roganovic was transported by helicopter to the national hospital in Podgorica yesterday. He is currently stable but his life is still in jeopardy. Doctors had to amputate both his legs and remove some other organs.
Eyewitnesses DN talked to at the scene said that it had been a powerful explosion so that it was a pure luck that no pedestrians or drivers of other cars had been injured. They also said there had been so much blood at the site that they had initially believed there were two occupants in the car. The force of the blast threw Roganovic away from the car.
The Vektra Boka company, which owns the bus station where the explosion occurred, stated that all the passengers who had been there were safe and unharmed.
The main road in Herceg Novi was blocked for traffic yesterday afternoon. Cars were directed to alternative routes, whereas the traffic for trucks and buses was disrupted for more than four hours.
Roganovic spent eight years in prison for murdering Marko Vesnic form Belgrade, one of the fun leaders of the Crvena Zvezda (Red Star) football club, and wounding Ivan Markovic in Igalo on 24 July 2009. After serving his sentence, he was released from prison on 27 January 2016.
