05.09.2019.
Communication
By another announcement of hunger strike, the persons who have stayed in former “Bristol” hotel, confirm their intent to arrive at permanent solution to their housing issue by means of bypassing the law. They are wholeheartedly assisted in their cause by irresponsible politicians with their false promises, and their support to unlawful actions which they use only to mislead the persons who have remained in the “Bristol”, but in fact they are doing it for their insular petty-political interests and scoring cheap points.
The hunger strike cannot change the resoluteness of the Ministry of Defence 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 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.
