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As “Novosti” learns, at the end of the month, the first five pilot lawsuits against members of the NATO force with compensation claims will be presented before the highest courts of our country.
That is exactly why Italian lawyer Angelo Fiore Tartalja came to Nis this weekend to help his Serbian colleague Srdjan Aleksic. The trials against members of the Alliance for endangering the health and lives of people and the environment during the 1999 attack will end. Tartalja received more than 170 verdicts before the Italian judiciary in favor of soldiers from maintenance missions of peace in the former Yugoslavia some of them even died. Courts across Italy have confirmed that there is a link between his illnesses and his stay in the bombed territory.
– We will file lawsuits in Nis, Vranje, Kragujevac, Belgrade and Novi Sad – Aleksić says for “Novosti”. – Prosecutors are former reservists, officers, police officers on duty in Kosovo and Metohija, and civilians. They all contracted cancer and, during the NATO bombing, they were in Kosovo and Metohija or Vranje. We have chosen cases identical to those obtained by our colleague Tartalj in Italy.
Along with the pilot of the lawsuit, medical evidence will be presented that the cause of the disease is depleted uranium. Tartalja managed to demonstrate the presence of heavy metals in patients, with the help of experts from the “La Sapijenca” University Clinic in Rome, the Institute of Nanotechnology in Milan and the University of Turin.
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Since our Civil Procedure Law allows foreign experience, in these cases, Italian oncologists who already have experience for Italian soldiers will be hired. Aleksic explains that they opted for the Serbian judiciary because of the high costs of litigation abroad, but also because foreign courts can declare themselves incompetent because the plaintiffs are not their citizens. If the judgments of our court are in favor of the sick, in order to receive compensation they must be recognized by the NATO member countries.
THE COMMISSION IS ENDING
The PARLIAMENTARY Commission for the Investigation of the Consequences of NATO Bombings on the Health of Serbian Citizens, formed in 2018, according to President Darko Laketić, is concluding the final report:
– Although our mandate has expired, we have completed the report and will present it in a month. This is where the Commission’s work ends, and further moves are up to the state. Then I will give a proposal of steps that I think should be taken – says Laketic for “Novosti”.
– We have a common destiny: the citizens of Serbia were bombed and died as a result of that act, and the same is the case with Italian soldiers who were on missions abroad, where depleted uranium bombs were used, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo and Metohija. That was the reason why we started a court battle with my colleague Aleksić, says Tartalja.
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He adds that it will be a long battle for the truth, and recalls that he also fought with institutions in Italy, because so far some 8,000 Italian soldiers have fallen ill and about 400 have died. Meanwhile, Aleksic appeared before the UN Commission on Human Rights and Environment and some 1,000 petitions from our citizens. The UN has been asked to send two independent investigators for the protection of the environment and human rights. However, there is still no answer.
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