Residents of the village of Mahala in Zeta asked the authorities to protect them from the consequences of the sand separation work of the "Transpetrol" company, which, they claim, works 24 hours a day.
In the letter submitted to "Vijesti", the locals state that the main reason for their address is "the incredible 24-hour working hours of the separation, the noise produced by the crushers that does not allow normal life, the dust that covers almost half of the place, as well as the devastation of the Cijevna riverbed which became a bigger stream in that part".
"We are asking for help from all the relevant subjects of this country... We are asking the authorities to take concrete steps to put an end to this," the residents' letter states.
Yesterday, before ending the phone call, Rajo Šuškavčević said that he is no longer the owner of "Transpetrol" and that the journalist "is no longer harassing him".
In the central registry of the Commercial Court, Slavko Kračković, who did not answer phone calls yesterday, is listed as the founder and executive director of "Transpetrol".
"What are the official working hours of the separation? If it really is 24 hours as they say, who allowed the unbearable noise and dust, that is, our poisoning, to last 24 hours? Are the sand dumps formed 40 meters from our houses a form of adequate storage", states the letter from the locals.
As stated in the letter, the locals are also interested in when the pollution and noise measurements were last made at the separation, whether the concessionaire complies with all points of the concession contract and whether the company "Transpetrol" has permits for the residential building that it built almost in the river bed. because that part of the riverbed is managed as a green belt.
Yesterday, "Vijesti" did not receive an answer from the Directorate for Inspection Affairs as to whether they went to the field regarding the accusations of Mahala residents and what measures they took. Even from the Capital City, they did not answer what they did regarding the complaints of Mahala residents.
In the letter, the locals state that their efforts to inform the authorities about the ecological disaster in their town remained a dead letter, and that there was also a petition with 290 signatures of the locals, "which famously disappeared and everything was covered up".
"Our efforts with the local assembly from a few years ago were unsuccessful. At one gathering, the guest was the president of GO Golubovci, Dušan Radonjić. The promise given to him by the owner of the company that he would not work after 17 pm was respected for the whole 10 days", according to the letter from the locals.
Yesterday, Radonjić did not answer the call and text messages of the "Vijesti" journalist.
The locals warned that, if their requests are not adequately resolved this time, they will be forced to "a different kind of protest", because they are only asking for normal living conditions.
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