The President of the Democratic Party (DS), Srđan Milivojević, yesterday called on the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad to question the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić, regarding claims that the collapse of the canopy of the Novi Sad Railway Station was the result of sabotage.
Milivojević stated in a statement that on July 15 this year, the prosecution office, among other things, informed the public that the analysis and expert examination of more than 20 samples of seized traces "did not determine the presence of explosive materials, which means that the aforementioned analysis showed that the demolition of the railway station canopy was not a consequence of terrorism."
According to the DS president, Brnabić "finally, after ten years of being involved in politics, has been caught in the truth," the Beta agency reported.
"The canopy did fall and kill 16 people due to financial diversion by senior officials of the Serbian Progressive Party, who the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime charges with stealing 115 million euros in that operation," Milivojević added.
He assessed that "now we finally have the recognition of the most responsible officials of the advanced mafia organization as to who these terrorists are in Serbia."
"I have no doubt that the leader of this terrorist organization is Aleksandar Vučić. The Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad should immediately question Ana Brnabić," Milivojević said.
Brnabić said yesterday morning that the canopy that collapsed on November 1 last year, killing 16 people, was "demolished as the beginning of a color revolution."
"I don't think the canopy fell on its own, nor that it was an accident, a tragedy, or any product of some unscrupulous actions in that sense, I think it was a planned diversion," Brnabić said on Pink television.
Beta states that the thesis of sabotage at the station was first promoted by the leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Šešelj, and previously only Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) MP Vladimir Đukanović publicly supported it.
The Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), Marinika Tepić, stated that the "fabrication about the diversion above the canopy" was uttered by the Speaker of the National Assembly in agreement with Vučić.
"Ana Brnabić, like every progressive, knows no shame. Only a person without an ounce of morality, honesty, or intelligence, can declare that the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad was a diversion carried out to start a color revolution," Tepić assessed.
She added that the canopy fell due to "the corruption and greed of her and Vučić's camarilla."
"As a long-time prime minister during the contracting and execution of criminal works, fatal to 16 people, Brnabić is now on a daily tour of television stations on a mission to 'save' her arrested ministers, that is, the Boss and herself," Tepić said in a written statement.
SSP Vice President Dušan Nikezić also called on the prosecution to immediately question Brnabić about the information it has.
"And if Ana Brnabić does not provide evidence for such a claim, we demand that the prosecution immediately initiate criminal proceedings against the Speaker of the Parliament, who is maliciously spreading false and dangerous information, causing panic and diverting the investigation from the corruption deal, which caused 16 innocent people to lose their lives and caused Serbia to suffer hundreds of millions of euros in damage," Nikezić said in a statement.
Co-president of the Green Left Front (ZLF) party, Radomir Lazović, assessed that the government "seems to have made a decision to make this the official position."
"Ana Brnabić has just accused citizens of being responsible for the demolition of the canopy in Novi Sad. Until now, they have been letting bizarre characters on bizarre television stations say this, and now it seems that a decision has been made to make it the official position," Lazović wrote on Facebook.
The informal network of professors, Academic Plenum, called on the prosecution to question the parliament speaker, saying that such claims, "made without a single piece of evidence, constitute public harassment and spreading panic."
"We call on the competent prosecutor's office to urgently summon Ana Brnabić to present evidence for her claims. If such evidence does not exist, we expect her to be detained, in accordance with the law, for spreading panic and destabilizing society," the Academic Plenum announced.
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