Bailiffs tried to exempt the parking lot in the center of Banja Luka. However, they gave up their intention. Namely, several hundred citizens gathered at the invitation of the mayor Drasko Stanivukovic. Why is this parking lot disputed?
The break of workers of the City Administration and Municipal Services in the parking lot with water and sandwiches prevented the bailiffs from exempting the parking lot in the center of Banja Luka.
According to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this parcel belongs to “Autoprevoz”, a private company that deals with road traffic.
The parking lot has been used by the city for years, and its mayor ignores court decisions.
“At all instances of the courts of our Republika Srpska (RS), they received verdicts that this is our land, and then the Constitutional Court of BiH said that it is not ours. And what is important to say, in that Constitutional Court of BiH, four votes were that it was not ours, and three abstained from that opinion. The BiH court has entered into the merits of deciding who is the mediator, which has never been, nor will be, the jurisdiction of constitutional courts. Therefore, everything is clear here,” Drasko Stanivukovic stated.
Since the gathering was not announced, the police registered the citizens who came at the mayor’s invitation.
“I think that the city is 100 percent right here, considering that once “Autoprevoz” received land from the municipality somewhere on the outskirts, and left this to the city,” said Sekula Popovic, a pensioner.
“This is city land, and it is well known that this land is in compensation for the old bus station, and there used to be a tram, here used to be a railway station as well, that is, it is known what was here. All the old people of Banja Luka know that, not only us young people. So, it means in compensation land for land, and the contract was made, the contract disappeared, and now we are here to defend what is ours,” a citizen said.
The dispute has been ongoing since the privatization of “Autoprevoz” in 2002, by which the land in the city center went to the buyers, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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