The inhabitants of the beer villages of Gornja and Donja Brezna announced that on Monday at seven o'clock they will block the village road and prevent representatives of the Cnogorsk electric transmission system (CGES) and contractors of the Lastva Pljevlja transmission line from entering the village. They claim that CGES completely destroyed the road they built on their properties with heavy machinery and that when laying the cables, it usurps other people's properties.
They demand that CGES compensate the damage caused to the properties and repair the road, that is, build a new one, but also to invest in the water supply of the village and thus "at least minimally compensate for the huge damage they did to the mentioned area".
"In Piva there is an unprecedented robbery of property from the poor and people who are legally ignorant or do not live here. The last straw happened on Thursday, June 14, when the contractors sent by CGES tried to forcefully pull the transmission cables on Mirko Radojević's property, which they had already completely destroyed," reads the statement signed by Mirko Radojević, Milonja and Radonja Blagojević and Milorad and Majo Blečić.
They also state that the residents of Piva are conducting hundreds of court cases, because the CGES "destroyed and usurped their properties without any or minimal compensation."
"The police in Plužine called me and warned me that I must not go to prevent CGES from carrying out work on my property because the police will file a criminal complaint against me. "The policeman called me literally ten minutes after I warned the CGES people on the phone to get away from my property," claims Radojević.
The brothers Milonja and Radonja Blagojević are engaged in tourism and have the ethnic village "Montenegro". They claim that the CGES destroyed the road to the ethnic village, so buses can barely get there.
Milorad and Majo Blečić, who are livestock farmers, claim that they have a problem getting to their houses because the road was completely destroyed by machines and trucks.
CGES: The road is better than it was
CGES claims that they are making maximum efforts to reach an agreement with all landowners located on the route of the transmission line and to respect their demands.
They point out that it was agreed with the contractor to return the roads to their original state. They state that it is intended to compensate for any damage to the properties.
"We emphasize that the road infrastructure has not only been restored to its previous state, but has also been greatly improved... The percentage of expropriated land for pole sites is 98 percent on the entire 160-kilometer transmission line route. CGES has set aside several million euros for this purpose, and the price for expropriated land is determined by a special committee of the Real Estate Administration".
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