NGO "Izvor života" launched help for Vasa Terić

After the public bailiff, with the assistance of the police, implemented the court decision and evicted seventy-year-old Vas Terić from the apartment in the shack on "Vuka Mićunovića" Street, in the Rastoci neighborhood of Nikšić, and installed a new lock, a group of citizens did the same - removed the lock and moved in again Terić, who has no income and lived in that apartment out of necessity.

The non-governmental organization "Izvor života" launched an action and invited all people of good will to help Terić.

"As long as his health allowed, he worked and lived with dignity, as he still does today, despite the greatest adversity that befell him. Vaso Terić was thrown out of two small rooms and left on his doorstep to the displeasure of everyone. After thirty years, suddenly, a long time ago a defunct company that sold its land and now suddenly one of the 11 families, the oldest and the sickest, ends up on the street first. The city stood up, good fellow citizens came forward to offer him accommodation, collected money to pay for a lawyer," they say from the aforementioned NGO.

Requests for eviction arrived at the addresses of 11 families, mostly former employees of Prvoborac, who moved into temporary facilities in the Rastoci settlement in 1994, based on, as they claim, a verbal agreement with the company's management at the time. The company went bankrupt, and Novi Prvoborac was founded, which acquired ownership rights over the land based on the right to use it in 2020.

According to the tenants of the barracks, the mentioned company sold the land of almost six thousand square meters to the company Sab Securiti from Herceg Novi for 190.000 euros, which last year concluded a pre-purchase agreement with the company Agrologistika.

The barracks, which served as dormitories for the workers from Kosovo, were in extremely bad condition, so the tenants had to invest money to make them more tidy. They repeatedly appealed to Novi Prvoborec, the legal successor of the company that was in bankruptcy, to issue them a decision based on which they can live in temporary facilities, but, as they claim, they were told that they could not help them because the facilities were temporary, and municipal land.

"The question is when they will come to evict him again, but he is dignified and ready to defend, not only himself, but also his neighbors who protect him these days. Seeing all that happened to this troubled old man, we decided to help him in every way as well as to invite the public to help him live this little life like any normal human being. Proud and humble he agreed to it, although while we were talking about it he was wringing his hands and worrying about whether anyone would find fault with him We invite all people of good will to help him, and the payment can be made to his account," they said from "Izvor života".

Anyone who wants and is able to help Vas Terić can do so by making a payment to the giro account: 535-0100100156649-33.

The President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, received the representatives of the shack tenants and promised them, even though they bear no responsibility for the situation they found themselves in, that he would help them. He offered them all legal assistance, and Terić temporary accommodation.