The police seizure of the last, eighth bus represents retaliation for engagement and assistance to students and citizens who have been protesting over the past year demanding accountability for the collapse of the shelter, said today Milan Jaćimović, the son of transport operator Milomir Jaćimović.
He told the Beta agency that they have been left without means to work since the police seized their last bus at a service station where an extraordinary technical inspection was carried out yesterday.
“One is in the Novi Sad public transport company, three are in Belgrade at Makiš, and now here’s another one. I don’t know where they’ll take it, but it was seized by Interpol,” said Jaćimović.
He reminded that two of their buses had previously been damaged when windshields were smashed and tires slashed.
He added that after the seizure of the buses and their exclusion from traffic, police officers “openly told them” yesterday that they would prevent them from driving to protests.
“Yesterday, the police told us that none of our buses are welcome in Belgrade and that every one entering Belgrade will be confiscated. They repeated that again today when we went to get the keys. They’ve taken everything they could; yesterday we were fined more than 400,000 dinars, and who knows how much more they’ll write today. This is retaliation meant to shut us down,” said Milan Jaćimović.
He and his father went to the police station again today to obtain confirmation that the bus had been seized under an Interpol warrant.
“Today we were already at the traffic police station in Šajkaška Street in Novi Sad, where we collected the keys, only to be met again at the service station where yesterday’s extraordinary technical inspection was performed by a traffic police patrol that did not allow us to leave the premises or drive the bus away,” said Jaćimović.
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