The miners Branko Čokorilo, Bojan Stajić, Bratislav Živković, Branislav Zlatanović, Petar Petrović, Darko Zlatković, Nenad Trivunac and Radovan Grujić died in the accident in the "Soko" mine.
Today marks two years since the death of eight miner after the breakthrough of methane into the mining shaft Soko mine near Sokobanja.
The miners Branko Čokorilo, Bojan Stajić, Bratislav Živković, Branislav Zlatanović, Petar Petrović, Darko Zlatković, Nenad Trivunac and Radovan Grujić died in the accident in the "Soko" mine.
18 miners suffered minor and serious injuries.
Because of that tragedy, no one was held accountable, but the families of the victims and their legal representative, Bratislav Stojanović from Niš, announced a further legal battle.
The lawyers said that they filed an objection to the decision of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Aleksinac to reject the criminal complaint filed by the Ministry of Energy against 14 people due to the accident in the mine.
"We filed an objection on January 31, but for now the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš has not resolved anything." We are also waiting for the final outcome of the proceedings," said the Stojanović law office.
Refusal of the prosecution to initiate criminal proceedings
In the second half of January, the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Aleksinac dismissed the criminal complaint against Zorana Mihajlović, the former Vice President of the Government of Serbia and the Minister of Mining and Energy, for the criminal offense of serious crime against general security against 14 people.
This is the third refusal of the prosecutor's office to initiate criminal proceedings due to the accident in the "Soko" mine and the second rejection of the criminal complaint filed by the Ministry of Mining and Energy, at the time when Minister Zorana Mihajlović was in charge.
In the last explanation of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, it was stated that "there are no grounds for suspicion that a criminal offense has been committed, for which it is being prosecuted ex officio".
"The decision was made after the evidentiary actions carried out, among others, in the form of an inspection of the report of the republican mining inspector on the inspection supervision of the mine "Soko", the expert opinion of the committee of experts of the Faculty of Mining and Geology in Belgrade and two additional expert opinions of this institution, announced from the Basic Public prosecutor's office in Aleksinac.
The shame of the Serbian judiciary
During the collection of evidence, the Prosecutor's Office in Aleksinac heard the miners injured in the accident, the republican mining inspector for mining Zorica Vukadinović, the representative of the commission of experts of the Faculty of Mining and Geology in Belgrade Nebojša Gojković, the chief engineer of methanometry at JP PEU "Resavica" Dušan Pokrajec. It also heard the dispatcher of RMU "Soko" Emina Milovanović Stamenković, miner Milan Nikolić, head of geological service in RMU "Soko" Daniel Radivojević and supervisor for ventilation and irrigation in RMU "Soko" Ivan Miljković.
The lawyer of the families of the injured miners, Stojanović, assessed the decision of the Aleksinac Prosecutor's Office to reject the request to initiate criminal proceedings for the third time as "shameful for the Serbian judiciary" because what happened in the mine was not "force majeure".
"What happened in the mine cannot be attributed to force majeure, because those people did not die from a lightning strike, but from suffocation due to the high concentration of methane in the pit." It is not force majeure because the work in the shaft could and should have been interrupted due to the greater presence of methane in the pit, of which there were clear signs," said Stojanović, after OJT Aleksinac announced its decision.
He pointed out that on critical nights, the machines were turned off four times in the pit before the methane breakthrough occurred.
"The mechanical engineer on duty did not react four times and did not carry out the evacuation, nor did the dispatcher on duty. "She sent an electrician to turn the machines back on manually, because she couldn't use the automatic button when they stopped working, so they could continue exploitation," Stojanović stressed.
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