For standing at the intersection during 16 minutes of silence, together with the students of the First Belgrade High School, a married couple was fined for a traffic violation. "We will not pay", they say to "Vreme"
Belgrade resident Ivana Franović posted on her Facebook profile traffic ticket which arrived at her home address on June 11. Due to standing on the road during 16 minutes of silence Franović has to pay 5000 dinars for those who died in the fall of the canopy.
If he pays the fine within eight days, the amount will not be 5000, but 2500 dinars. We have not had such cases so far. Apart from Ivana, her husband, who was with her, received the punishment for the same reasons.
"Like every day, on June 6, I was standing at the corner of Cara Dušana and Dobračina streets, near the First Belgrade High School. My work is close to me, and my child also attends that school," Franović told "Vreme".
New orders
Before blocking the intersection, the school policewoman asked Ivana and her husband to stay after 16 minutes of silence in order to legitimize them. She explained to them that she had new orders, and she would rather legitimize an adult, not children.
"I agreed with that, and so did my husband," Ivana described the event on Facebook: "She legitimized us, made a telephone check to see if there was any search for us (imagine, there is no search), and a colleague who later joined her without saying a word recorded our information in a notebook. They did not tell us that they would file a misdemeanor report."
In an interview with Vreme, Ivana explains that she has known the policewoman for a long time and believes that she was only formally signed on to the sentences that her family received, and that a new colleague is behind this.
"We know her as a school police officer and she really gives us peace of mind because she always comes out of the school grounds a few minutes before 11.52:XNUMX and stops traffic."
Franović tells "Vreme" that it is about the city center, where those who pay respect to the victims often receive insults: "The repertoire is standard, 'traitors', 'foreign mercenaries', but a few days ago, one person shouted to the children that they should be killed."
"She was moving along the road, but there is a sidewalk"
In the traffic violation decision itself, it is stated that Ivana Franović violated the Law on Traffic Safety because she was moving on a road with a sidewalk in Cara Dušana Street at number 66 "even though she was obliged to move on the surface intended for pedestrian movement". It was stated that she committed the offense in the period from 11.52 to 12.08.
Franović says that she and her husband have hired a lawyer and are determined to go to court. He says they have no intention of paying the fine.
"Only if the lawyer tells us that we need to pay because of some procedure, and then we still go to court, we will pay. But, apart from that, no, we will not pay," she says.
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