Zidjin: On Mount Starica, a worker was crushed and tools really worth 50 % a million euros was established on fireplace

In the announcement, they also mentioned that the incident occurred previous evening, close to 11:00 p.m., in the spot of ​​Severni Revir, and that they anticipate a brief response from the authorities.

“A team of campers, which allegedly guards Mount Starica from mining and promises to care for the ecosystem, induced physical injuries to an employee of the RBM company and established hearth to an Epiroc brand drill, value 520,000 euros,” the firm additional.

They said that the injured employee was running the drill that was set on fireplace and that he gave a statement to the law enforcement.

They claimed that in that assertion he mentioned that he was attacked by 3 masked males, putting on black hoods and masks about their faces, which only had slits for the eyes.

It is additional that in that statement it is said that they “were armed with a steel pipe, a lit torch and a pistol”.

“They necessary him to leave the driller’s cabin, soon after which they hit him several occasions and intimidated him with a lit torch,” the assertion reads.

They included that “after obtaining accidents, the hurt and frightened employee ran away”.

“This is a different act of vandalism, in a series of a lot of that preceded it, which creates supplemental pressure and fear for workers of the Serbia ZiJin Copper corporation, and the inhabitants of Majdanpek,” the statement claimed.

They stated that they experienced presently knowledgeable the public about the harm they endured, about the destruction of equipment, the threatened safety of employees and the impossibility of the operate course of action at this site.

The corporation also stated that, “after reporting the case to the capable authorities, they anticipate their swift reaction, in buy to”, as they pointed out, avert additional escalation of vandal attacks on assets and staff.

They are also inquiring for a “detailed investigation into who is encouraging this kind of steps by campers on Starica”, which, as they mentioned, are basically legal acts.

Mihajlović: That the institutions respond due to the assault on the worker and the burning equipment of Zidjin a on Starica

The Minister of Mining and Power, Zorana Mihajlović, today identified as on the institutions to react urgently because of to the attack on a worker and the arson of the tools of the Chinese corporation Ziđin on Mount Starica.

In a assertion, she said that “Cuta’s (chief of the Ecological Rebellion and MP Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta) protesters and so-referred to as activists have been threatening the basic safety of personnel for months and threatening them with weapons.”

She extra that “because of this, 60 people today are presently out of operate,” her cabinet claimed

She warned that right after final night’s attack, hundreds of people today may well get rid of their work opportunities, which, according to her, proves that the purpose is to prevent mining in Majdanpek.

“It is not activism, nor a struggle for the environment, but vandalism and breaking the regulation,” she reported.

She stated that “the statements of Jovanović in the media and the actual physical assaults on the field” act, as she assessed, “as premeditated and coordinated actions”.

“While residence is getting destroyed and threats are staying made with weapons in Majdanpek, Ćuta is inquiring for the work to be suspended, even while he is not intrigued in what professional men and women with higher education degrees, which he does not have, say about the rehabilitation of the rock mass on Starica,” she additional.

She accused Jovanovic of “telling untruths and lies” and of “alarming individuals and manipulating in order to realize political gains and arrive at the media, and at the very same time using the establishment of the Parliament of Serbia”, of which he is a member.

“Now his intention is to end mining and make tens of thousands of folks jobless. Who did he… talk to about that, unquestionably not the citizens,” claimed Mihajlović.

She explained that the state is the guarantor of all people and providers that run in accordance with the legal guidelines, irrespective of no matter if they are citizens of Serbia or not.

She stressed that “the condition assures the security and smooth procedure of all investors and providers, irrespective of whose ownership they are”, and pointed out that “in this case, the state owns 37 percent”.

“We will not enable those who are pests and feel they can wipe out someone’s occupation or endanger someone’s lifetime to go on to do so, that’s why an urgent reaction of the qualified establishments is desired,” she claimed.

She recurring that rehabilitation of the rock mass on Starica is important and that the inspector’s conclusions showed that the cracks characterize a probable risk that can bring about landslides and slides of the rock mass.

The Chinese corporation Zidjin (Serbia ZiJin Copper) previously introduced that a “group of campers” defeat its personnel and set fire to equipment really worth 50 % a million euros on Starica mountain.

In the announcement, they also said that the incident occurred final night time, all over 11:00 p.m., in the region of ​​the Northern District, and that they assume a fast response from the authorities.