Toll plaza witnesses didn’t see if Babic was driving – Drustvo

The trial of Dejan Stanojevic, the driver of the director of the Serbian Corridor Zoran Babic, continued today in the Court of First Instance of Nis, accused of running over a vehicle parked on the toll ramp near Doljevac on January 31 last year, when Stanika Gligorijevic (52) was assassinated. five people were slightly and seriously injured.

The car of the director of the Serbian Corridor in an accident near Doljevac Photo: Danas

The cashier who worked at the tollbooth that day declared today that she “could not recognize the driver” who was driving the official vehicle.

She described him as a taller man with a dark complexion and a black jacket, and when asked by the judge to compare him to Stanojevic present in the courtroom, she said it could be her complexion. He said he did not approach the cars involved in the accident and that he “did not see” who was sitting in the back seat of the official car.

A colleague from the toll plaza, who that day approached the vehicles involved in the accident to “help if there were any injuries,” also stated that the driver of the official car “had black hair and a black jacket.”

When the judge asked him if he saw Stanojevic at the wheel, he said: “I think so.”

A member of the car patrol and Bratislava Micic police ensign said that in the official vehicle “he found not the driver, but a man lying on the instrument panel with his head in the area above the steering wheel and his feet stuck. between the passenger seat and the stairs. “

He determined who was driving this car on the basis that one of those present told him who the driver was, and then approached him and identified him.

He said that “it is not his job to send the vehicle that caused the accident for a technical inspection, nor to provide images of the accident.”

Stevan Todorovic, a coroner who examined Stanojevic’s injuries, was unable to say at the earlier hearing whether he was driving an official “Skoda Superb” or whether his employer, Babic, was behind the wheel, as the lawyer insisted. injured parties, lawyer Božo Prelević.

The images from the surveillance camera of the toll plaza, showing the situation at the time of the accident, are interrupted for two minutes, so that the moment when Babić’s official vehicle collided with the “Opel Astra is not seen. “I was standing at the intersection.

At the first hearing, held on November 22 last year, Stanojevic partially admitted responsibility for driving fast, but claimed that the accident also occurred on the slippery road and visibility reduced by fog.

According to the official version of the Nis General Prosecutor’s Office, Stanojevic was driving the official car and Babic, according to his own statement in the investigation, “slept in the back seat.”

Unofficial sources assured in some media and on social networks that it was not the defendant who was at the wheel of the “Skoda Superb” but his employer Babić. The then president of the Free Citizens Movement, Sergej Trifunović, said that according to his information, after the accident, “six or seven people took Babić out of the driver’s seat and transferred him to the back seat.”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić denied such claims and claimed that he watched the video from the toll plaza, which is “terrible”. He did not specify which recording was in question, or on what basis he obtained such knowledge.

The toll ramp near Doljevac was removed in June this year, with the “Roads of Serbia” explanation being made “to speed up traffic through Serbia after the completion of Corridor 10.”

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