05.09.2019.
Communication
For the purpose of truthful information of the public we hereby note that the claim issued by Balša Božović that one person on hunger strike in the former hotel Bristol got sick and that it has been transported to the Military Medical Academy is an absolute lie. Television N1 broadcasted the false news that even two persons had been transported to the MMA.
A medical team of the Ministry of Defence has visited twice the persons who have been on hunger strike for 12 hours in total, when medical examinations were conducted and no health problems of those persons were established.
During the second visit, the medical team examined J. M. as well who is not on hunger strike and whose overall health conditions had been bad in previous several days. Upon doctors’ proposal she was hospitalised in the MMA where she received medical treatment. The state of health of J. M. is stable.
The Ministry of Defence once again calls upon malicious and irresponsible politicians not to manipulate the persons who are staying in the Bristol hotel and not to misuse them for the purpose of daily politics, calculatingly promising them solutions to the problem that are against the law.
The Ministry of Defence is resolute to resolve the housing issue of the persons who have remained in the “Bristol” exclusively in a legal fashion. That is why we are calling upon them this time as well to immediately move into the flats which they have already seen in the A block, Vračar, and Zvezdara in Belgrade, which the Ministry of Defence offers to them in accordance with their entitlement. That is the only lawful possibility and the most correct offer within the framework of the law for the solution of their housing issue. We regret to establish that instead of such offer they have opted for false support of politicians to achieve something to which they are not entitled in keeping with the law.
At the very least, that would also be incorrect to 18,000 persons on the unified ranking list of individuals interested in resolving their housing issue of the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces, many of whom could use the same arguments and ask for extraordinary or unlawful solution to their housing issue. If permanent housing should be provided to the persons who have remained in the “Bristol”, the other persons interested in obtaining flats would have right to sue the Ministry of Defence and win the case. Because of similar violations of law back in 2008, the Ministry of Defence paid six billion dinars in last two years for adjudicated compensations in lawsuits for discrimination of reservists. That is why such violations of law will not happen again in this and any other case.
