Photo: Zoran Jovanovic"The cause of the fire and the causal connection between the fire and the omission of the defendants as responsible persons have not been established," the Court of Appeal stated.
The appellate court in Kragujevac overturned the first-instance verdict passed in April, by which the managers of the "Milan Blagojević-Namenska" factory were sentenced to three years in prison for the death of two workers.
In an explosion in the dedicated factory in Lučani, on July 14, 2017, worker Milojko Ignjatović died on the spot, and his colleague Milomir Milivojević (25) suffered serious injuries from which he died two weeks later at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade.
The indictment was filed by the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Čačak, Ivanjica department, at the end of June 2019, and it included the long-term general manager of the dedicated factory in Lučani, Radoš Milovanović, and two managers of the factory plants, Vladimir Lončarević and Toma Stojić. Radoš Milovanović died last year, so the proceedings against the two executives continued.
The fault of the defendants has not been established
How it transmits Insider, according to the opinion of the Appellate Court, the first-instance judgment was passed with significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure, because the judgment did not state the reasons for decisive facts that are the subject of proof, and the reasons given are unclear and incomprehensible.
"The cause of the fire and the causal connection between the fire and the failure of the defendants as responsible persons have not been established," states the Court of Appeal.
Especially, as the court explains, given the fact that, for now, it has not been established in a clear and unmistakable way whether the defendant Lončarević had the capacity of a responsible person in a legal entity at the time of the critical event.
"As well as whether the actions of the defendant Tom Stojić were contrary to the stated provisions of the Law on Safety and Health at Work, the Rulebook on Occupational Safety in the Manufacturing of Explosives and Gunpowder and the Manipulation of Explosives and Gunpowder and the Rulebook on Preventive Measures for Safe and Healthy Work in Manual Transmission of the burden, as well as the Collective Agreement on safety and health at work, as it is charged to them by the accusation, however, the court of first instance determines in the contested verdict," the court stated in its response to Insider.
As they add, the first-instance court was ordered to remove the significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure pointed out to it in the retrial, to clarify all the necessary facts in order to properly and completely establish the factual situation.
Milovan Milivojević, the father of the victim Milomir, spoke to "Vreme" about how difficult the struggle is to get justice.
Milovan, himself an employee of the factory for more than three decades, spoke publicly about everything that happened then, that is, about the huge failures in the organization of work with explosive materials. Milovan also used the opportunity, when the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, visited the area, to make his way to him and tell him what happened. He then received him together with his wife Nela Vučić in April 2018. Also, an investigation was launched and an indictment was brought against Milovanović and several other responsible persons from "MB Namensko", for the criminal offense of "serious crime against general security".
It will also be recorded that the workers of this factory came to a hearing to support the now deceased general manager.
"None of those in front of the court who insulted us approached me and said 'I'm sorry'," said Milovan Milivojević in an interview with "Vreme". "Most passers-by put their heads down and walk past me."
The factory "Milan Blagojević" - Namenska was managed by Radoš Milovanović from 1982 (with a break in 1997-2001) until 2021, until he was promoted. During that period, 21 workers died in the countless explosions and incidents that occurred.
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"None of those in front of the court who insulted us came up to me and said 'I'm sorry,'" Milovan Milivojević, whose son Milomir died on July 14, 2017 in the factory of Namenska industrija Lucani, told Vreme. "Most passers-by put their heads down and pass me by." They don't come to my house, not even all the neighbors. Earlier, I had twelve guests from the neighborhood at the party, now there are none."
Who is Radoš Milovanović, the director of MB Namensk, who holds Lucan in his fist, good with all the authorities, "an expert whose success they are jealous of" and whose balance is 21 dead workers? According to the claims of former officials of the Ministry of Defense, each of the ministers tried to replace him, but, in some strange way, he gave up on it.
Vladimir Lončarević and Toma Stojić were sentenced to three years in prison for the death of workers Milomir Milivojević and Milojko Ignjatović in 2017 at the "MB Namenska" factory in Lučani. This first-instance verdict was handed down by the Basic Court in Ivanjica
