The search continues in Montenegro: The double murderer is still at large

The State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro, Petar Koprivica, announced that the Bijelo Polje police received only one report for Alija Balijagić, who is suspected of a double murder committed on Friday in the village of Sokolac.

He said that the report was received on the same day when the murder was committed and that the police searched for him for five hours and warned the locals.

Rade Ćetković, a member of the Association of Judges of Montenegro, explained that Balijagić is free because he has served all his previous sentences, for which he was imprisoned for over 35 years.

On Sunday, a helicopter with thermal imaging was searching the area around Tomasevo, as part of the search for Balijagić, a suspect in the murder of a brother and sister, Milenka and Jovan Madžgalj, in the village of Sokolac in Bijelo Polje.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Montenegro, Brigadier General Zoran Lazarevic, during a visit to the village of Sokolac in Bijelo Polje, said that members of the army and the police included all the capacities and techniques at their disposal in order to locate the suspect for the double murder in that place, reports RTCG.

Milenka and Jovan Madžgalj were shot dead on October 25 in the evening. Suspect Alija Balijagić is a multiple repeat offender in the commission of criminal acts, which is why he has been serving sentences for years.

At the end of September, it is suspected, in the village of Lješnica in Bjelopolje, he broke into V. B.'s house and stole two rifles and ammunition.

For the last 15 days, he has been running from the police, visiting mostly elderly households in remote villages above Bijelo Polje and Mojkovac.

• Helicopters and the army raised; The search for the double killer continues