The long-standing carelessness of the state to systematically solve the issue of accommodation of technical vessels that are currently out of operational exploitation and other ships under consideration, resulted in an incident at the village of Bazdanj in Krtoli near Tivat, in which one of the locals suffered serious injuries.
Namely, during the inspection by the Navigation Safety Inspection from Kotor over the Bazdanj pier, around 10 am, there was a verbal duel between the owner of the Briv Construction company from Kotor, Vojislav Bujković, and one of the disgruntled locals, Vasa Dubravčevič, whose house is only a few meters away from the pier where Briv Contsruction kept its ships tied up for years – barges, tugboats, ferries and other hydro construction vessels.
Bujković, who was invited by the inspection to officially attend the inspection of the pier and the surrounding water area, considering that the tugboat "Krsto" belonging to Briv Construction is still tied up near the Bazdanj pier, and Dubravčević, who approached the inspectors with several other members of his family, argued. , but there was no physical contact between them.
During the discussion, Dubravčević tripped over a stone cleat on the Bazdanj hill and fell, most likely injuring his hip.
He was soon treated by the emergency team from Tivat, who took him for a detailed examination and further treatment to the Special Hospital "Vado Ćuković" in Risno.
The police were also called, who made a report on the incident on the spot and later invited Bujković to give an official statement about how the incident happened in their official premises in Tivat. He denied that he had hurt Dubravčević in any way, but as he said, the latter tripped and fell.
The two got into an argument after the local man appeared on his own initiative to show the navigation safety inspectors three court rulings in favor of the local people who have been asking for the removal of Briv's vessels from the Bazdanj pier for years.
Bujković says, he noticed that Dubravčević was also carrying a small knife hanging from his dog, so he took out his mobile phone and used it to film the local man, which allegedly further irritated him, so Dubravčević allegedly told Bujković that the latter "killed his mother" with it which has been keeping its ships at the public pier near Dubravčević's house for years, disrupting his living environment and negatively affecting his business in tourism, which the Dubravčević family lives on.
The unfortunate incident between the owners of the Briv Construction company and the residents of Krtola is the culmination of a problem that has been going on for years in Boka, because the state, despite numerous appeals from the owners of technical and hydro-construction vessels, i.e. tourist boats that are not in use, systematically does not solve the problem of the lack of an officially designated location for long-term accommodation of that type of vessels.
Briv Construction has the largest fleet of hydro-construction vessels in the country, which consists of about 20 tugboats, ferries, barges, barges, dredgers, floating cranes and other similar vessels, and there is literally nowhere to place these vessels when they are not in operation and are not performing works on some of the coastal infrastructure facilities. For years, the state has ignored the requests of the owner of that company to determine a location on the coast where Briv Construction would, at its own expense, properly arrange a mooring for those vessels and where they would not disturb anyone, while at the same time the state allows the installation of permanent or temporary marinas for yachts.
Therefore, Briv is forced to station its vessels that fly the Montenegrin flag and pay fees for light duty and the arrangement of waterways to this country, on a part of the state's coastal infrastructure that has not been leased to anyone, as is the case with the Bazdanj marina in Krtoli. However, after numerous protests from the locals, Briv removed most of its vessels from this location about two months ago, so currently one of their ferries, a tugboat, a hydro-construction vessel, two pontoons and two barges are anchored at sea outside the main waterway. in the middle of the bay in front of the nature reserve Solila.
Near the disputed mule in Krtoli, tied to one of the two buoys that Briv placed here about 50 meters from the shore, and tied to the shore with a bow line beyond the reach of the Bazdanj mule, stands Briv's tugboat "Krsto", the removal of which the locals are also demanding from the inspection and announce that they will no longer allow Briv's vessels to moor at this public dock again, at any cost.
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