The Culture Council of the Novi Sad City Assembly accepted the initiative of Novi Sad Mayor Žarko Mićin to erect a monument to those killed in the fall of the railway station canopy in that city. The opposition against
Initiative of the mayor of Novi Sad Zarka Micina about erecting a monument to those killed in canopy collapse railway station in that city, was accepted on Monday (July 28) at the session of the Council for Culture of the City Assembly Novi Sad.
The proposal was adopted despite opposition from the opposition that attended the session.
At the meeting, the opinion of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments and JP "Urbanizam" regarding the submitted initiative was considered, after which consent was given to the initiative.
Design and money for the monument already by November 1?
Mićin proposed that the design and construction of the monument be implemented through a public tender and he also suggested that the tender decision should be made by October 15, so that the design could be chosen by November 1 and the funds planned in the construction budget.
"I know that it is not a long term, I think two and a half months is enough, so that on November 1 we will have a final decision on the appearance of the monument. This is something we should all agree on," Mićin pointed out.
He stated that the proposal to build a monument "is a prerequisite for collective memory and that it is the city's obligation to enable a dignified commemoration of the tragic event."
"When I included this initiative to the Council for Culture, I was aware that no monument can bring back human lives, nor alleviate the grief of the families of the victims. As mayor, I considered it absolutely necessary to adequately mark the place of suffering of 16 people. I consider it my duty and my obligation. But also the duty of the entire Novi Sad, so that those people are never forgotten," said Mićin.
Opposition against
The opposition, as in the previous session that was held on the subject of this monument, was against it. The main reason, as then, is the government's share of responsibility for the fall of the canopy.
Member of the National Movement of Serbia Boris Fejdi asked to wait until the court process is over.
"For this city, this country, this society to be clean with that, whether these people were killed by corruption or negligence," emphasized Feydi.
He is of the opinion that we should wait until the individuals who are guilty of this are labeled as such.
"And then, without a circus, as you said, the President of the Assembly, Dina Vučinić, reads what she needs to read and that at that moment no one comes forward to speak, so that the whole hall turns green," said Fejdi.
Mićin: Posupak cannot be completed in nine months
Mićin, addressing the representatives of the opposition, said that everyone wants the perpetrators of this event to be convicted, but that "this kind of procedure cannot be completed in nine months."
"There is no state with the capacity to prosecute people in nine months for such a serious tragedy. I am telling you this as a lawyer," he pointed out.
As he said, he and all representatives of the government are in favor of punishing those responsible, but "they cannot influence the court".
"You will not support SNS if you support this decision. No one can tell you that," the mayor told the opposition councilors.
Mićin presented the initiative after a conversation with President Vučić
The initiative of Mayor Mićin was sent to the Council for Culture of the City Assembly at the end of May, after a conversation with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Council forwarded the initiative to the Institute for the Protection of Monuments and JP Urbanism.
It was proposed to erect a monument at the accident site, which will represent a permanent material trace in the culture of memory and which, as basic elements, must contain the written names of the victims and the injured, as well as information about the tragic event.
After adoption by the Council, the initiative will be presented at the session of the City Assembly, which is scheduled for July 31.
The opposition demands that responsibility be indicated on the monument
One of the things that bothered the opposition was the absence of information about responsibility on the monument. As they stated earlier, the monument should also contain the sentence: "These people were killed by corruption. Let them be the last victims."
"The cause is clear and known. His omission from the monument would be an attempt to absolve the guilty and to cover up the responsibility of the authorities, which, unfortunately, is the main motive of the so-called mayor's proposal," the opposition concluded at the time.
Plaque set up by students for Mica's "misuse of misfortune"
When the students at the protest on May 1 put up a memorial plaque to the victims, Mićin called it an "abuse of the accident."
"As a responsible man and mayor of all citizens, I understand the need for us as a society to show respect for the victims of the tragedy that struck Novi Sad and the entire country and mark the place of suffering. However, the way a group of individuals decided to put up a memorial plaque, without any public procedure, without consulting the families of the victims, and bypassing the institutions, represents a political abuse of the accident," Mićin said on his Instagram account.
In the "lecture" he gave in the publication to the citizens who have been expressing their reverence for the victims for months, Mićin wrote that "compassion and solidarity with their families oblige us to be above daily political interests."
"Remembrance of the citizens who died tragically should not be the subject of political marketing, but a true expression of the respect of the entire society for the lost lives," Mićin said.
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The mayor then announced, after no one in the city even mentioned marking this place of suffering, that in agreement with the President of the Republic Aleksandar Vučić, he would launch "an official initiative to mark the suffering at the Railway Station with dignity with a memorial erected in accordance with the law and all regulations".
"In consultation with the families of the victims and the professional public, we will launch a public competition for the conceptual solution of the memorial, to which architects, sculptors, designers, but also all citizens who have a vision of what the memorial should look like will be able to apply. Appreciating the scale of the tragedy, it is important that the entire public participates in making the decision," Mićin concluded just a few months ago.
The date of the tragedy and the phrase "Novi Sad remembers" were written on the memorial plaque that the students put up as a sign of piety.
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