Activists of the “1 in 5 million” movement dumped garbage in front of the Belgrade Assembly

Activists of the “1 in 5 million” movement spilled dozens of garbage bags in front of the Belgrade Assembly building, which they collected this morning around the Cukaricki backwater, from where an unbearable stench spreads for a month.

As the Movement representative Sofija Nedeljković explained, the garbage was brought in so that Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić could see and feel how much the citizens of Čukarica stink “and how that would serve as additional motivation for him to stop lying and do something “.

For a month, the authorities and Vesić did not respond to calls from citizens to clean the sleeve. Only when we announced the cleaning did Vesić remember to call Srbijavode to clean the arm, but we did not see them there today, Nedeljković said, according to the Movement statement.

He added that it was nice that the government announced the cleanup, but noted that it was years late. The solution to the problem is not to “remove the sludge” from the bed of the Cukaricki tributary, as announced, but rather who and how exactly pollutes Topciderka, which flows into the tributary, must be determined, he said and asked if the deputy mayor could protect pollutants.

“Does Vesić, perhaps, protect the Uniriks company, which deals with the processing of hazardous waste and which was personally approved by former Minister of Environmental Protection Goran Trivan under suspicious circumstances? We still don’t know what they are doing in that factory and that is they have filters or discharge the sewage directly into Topčiderk and thus pollute it, “said Nedeljković.