Sabic: What if our homes are next after Savamala?
In his post on Blog B92, commissioner for public information Rodoljub Sabic compared the recent demolition of the part of the Savamala quarter, which has caused a great stir up in the public, with the situation from a year ago, when trams of the GSP public transportation company were used to block the line of sight between the demonstrators with their "yellow duck" and the officials at a reception organized in honor of the Belgrade Waterfront project.
Sabic reiterated that the answers of the Belgrade authorities to his letter, in which he requested that they make public all the relevant information about the circumstances under which the part of Savamala was demolished in the night of April 25th, were inadequate.
The commissioner recollected that, upon receiving information from concerned citizens, he made inquiries about the incident in which "some thirty people with three bulldozers, in the middle of the night, demolished around 1,000 square meters of facilities on the corner of the Hercegovacka and Mostarska streets."
He said that it was unacceptable that the city authorities' response to his inquiries was only that "the relevant city services did not participate" and that they referred him to "the relevant authorities".
"Even if they do not possess the information which they have to, they must obtain that information and not instruct the public to obtain it," he stated.
Sabic recollected that the inquiries from a year ago also remained unanswered, and that the GSP's reply was that the orders to stop the trams there did not come from them, but from the Interior Ministry.
"And the police stated that they knew nothing about that, that they possessed no information about that event," Sabic said.
In the commissioner's words, that is where the case remained to this day, and now "there are some who think that this matter should end in the same way."
"If it turns out that it should and can, and the requested information about 'unknown citizens' once again remains undisclosed, one would be responsible in considering the possibility that, after trying themselves out in regulating traffic and bringing order in the construction sector, they come up with the idea to start doing it in our homes. A possibility that must be precluded and prevented at any cost," Sabic wrote in the post on Blog B92.
Source: B92