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00:00:19Good afternoon, dear viewers, you are watching N1 info, these are the news
00:00:22of the day.
00:00:27The fire near Konjic is still spreading, firefighters. At the end
00:00:30of their strength, international
00:00:32assistance was requested.
00:00:36And in the region, an alarming situation on Brač, a large fire, dozens
00:00:39of firefighters on the ground. Fires also in Serbia and Montenegro.
00:00:42Gori.
00:00:45The number of dead in the earthquake in Colombia has risen to
00:00:48265, 496 people are listed as
00:01:08Konjic in the villages of Kanjina,
00:01:11everything will be fine, we'll forget about Živašnica, Brđani, Džepi and Džepska Planina, which is still not under control. As
00:01:15announced by the Operations Center of the Civil Protection of the Herzegovina-Neretva
00:01:19Canton, the fire has a tendency to spread, which is favored by
00:01:22high temperatures and wind. The terrain is mostly inaccessible for firefighting
00:01:26equipment, which prevents the spread of the fire today. Since
00:01:30early morning hours, the helicopter of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina continued
00:01:34its activities in extinguishing the fire in the area of the city of
00:01:36Konjic. From Konjic, an official
00:01:40request for international assistance in extinguishing the fire from
00:01:43the air was also sent. Civil protection warns that
00:01:47firefighters and personnel are at the end of their strength, and during
00:01:50demanding interventions, several vehicles experienced breakdowns, tire
00:01:54bursts, brake failures and water pumps. Fires were
00:01:57also recorded in the area of Jablanica, Mostar and
00:02:00Stolac.
00:02:04Currently, the situation at the fire site, meaning the fire is still
00:02:07active, mm, we have mm,
00:02:10meaning
00:02:12the fire is spreading, temperatures are high on the ground, it facilitates
00:02:16spreading, strong wind, mm, today's focus is our priority
00:02:20to try to prevent the spread of the fire in the direction
00:02:23of Odževska Planina towards the village of Brđani which is spreading,
00:02:26this attempt for us is
00:02:29to... try to localize that direction, and this morning there was a helicopter operation
00:02:33of the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it operated from 7:00
00:02:37and 10 minutes to
00:02:399:20 minutes, it performed five
00:02:43on papers, as the flights.
00:02:46A fire also broke out last night on the island of Brač,
00:02:50where firefighting forces are still working to extinguish it. Nikola
00:02:53Martinić Dragan, the head of Brač firefighters, told N1
00:02:57what the current situation is.
00:03:01The situation is currently a bit better than it was this morning and much better
00:03:05than it was last night, mm on the ground there are over
00:03:08120 firefighters from the entire operational area of
00:03:11Brač, as well as colleagues who came to help from
00:03:14the area of mm Split-Dalmatia
00:03:17county. During the morning, that is, since morning, we have had
00:03:21four Canadair planes at our disposal. At this moment, their number has somewhat
00:03:25decreased because there is some situation on Hvar. The Bura wind
00:03:28is causing us problems, however. little by little we are trying to bring the fire under
00:03:32control. During the night, we had many threatened buildings, both
00:03:35residential and commercial, because the fire, besides being at the very
00:03:39entrance to the village, affected the industrial zone in
00:03:42Pučišća, so we also had evacuations, some 50-60
00:03:46citizens were evacuated from their
00:03:49properties, we had a lot of work to
00:03:52save all those buildings that were directly threatened,
00:03:56however, I must praise all firefighters who were on the ground
00:03:59from... or did a lion's share
00:04:02n1info.ba. Thank you for of work during the night, and from the information I have now,
00:04:05neither a single property nor working machines within the industrial zone suffered
00:04:08severe damage in the fire itself, and most importantly, there were no
00:04:12injured civilians or firefighters. It is still
00:04:15difficult to estimate the burned area. The fire is still
00:04:19spreading, especially in the direction of the southwest, but
00:04:22with a somewhat weaker intensity. The burned
00:04:26area is certainly over 250 hectares
00:04:29of dense pine forest, so
00:04:32we will determine the final area when we have realistic time to map it,
00:04:36mm, as for other
00:04:39things, the situation is relatively under control, we hope
00:04:43that the wind will be in our favor through the afternoon, but these are some
00:04:46assumptions for which we cannot yet
00:04:49many, many people have to work more on it. guarantee.
00:04:52In the territory of Serbia, there are currently active, currently active
00:04:5531 fires in open areas, the most complex situation is in
00:04:58Deliblatska peščara where... affected more than 2,000
00:05:01hectares, then on Mount Stolovi near Kraljevo in Breznica in
00:05:05the municipality of Bujanovac and near Gornji Brestovac in the municipality of Bojnik,
00:05:08it was announced after the session of the republican headquarters for emergency situations.
00:05:14The situation on the ground is much more favorable, we have a joint
00:05:17operation of the helicopter unit of the Ministry of Interior Kamov
00:05:20helicopters Mi 17 of the Serbian Army. On
00:05:24the ground are members of the sector for emergency
00:05:27situations, members of voluntary fire societies,
00:05:31volunteers, locals.
00:05:34Uh, extinguishing the fire is hampered, as you saw,
00:05:37by inaccessible terrain, strong wind and high
00:05:40temperatures. Firefighters.
00:05:42rescuers successfully prevent the ground
00:05:46fire of low vegetation from
00:05:48spreading into the crown of the pine forest, that is, into a crown fire,
00:05:52houses and population are not
00:05:54threatened.
00:05:56In the territory of Montenegro, fires are currently active in the areas of Nikšić,
00:06:00Bar, Herceg Novi and Kolašin. In Bar, the fire is active on Mount
00:06:04Lisinj. In the area of Herceg Novi, all available vehicles and
00:06:07personnel are on the ground, there was fire close to houses and several were
00:06:11preventively evacuated.
00:06:14mm last night we had a very turbulent night because
00:06:17dozens of houses were threatened, fortunately
00:06:21not a single house was
00:06:24damaged nor was it affected by the fire, fortunately no
00:06:27member of the protection and rescue service
00:06:30was injured, neither locals nor tourists nor police, because last night there were
00:06:34members of various
00:06:36institutions on the ground, and the municipality took care that all those citizens who were
00:06:40evacuated during the night were taken care of. so that they would be
00:06:43provided with all necessary
00:06:45assistance.
00:06:50The director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Emir Suljagić, filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and
00:06:53Herzegovina against the Minister of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:06:57Srđan Amidžić due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense
00:07:01of non-execution of decisions of the High Representative. The complaint states
00:07:04that Minister Amidžić, as a responsible state official and member of the Council of Ministers,
00:07:08knowingly and continuously failed to fulfill obligations arising
00:07:11from the decision of the High Representative of September 20,
00:07:152023, which adopted the Law on Amendments
00:07:18to the Law on the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Potočari,
00:07:21memorial and burial site for the victims of the 1995
00:07:25genocide. The mentioned amendments significantly expanded the mandate of the Memorial Center
00:07:29in the areas of genocide research and education, while new
00:07:32Article 15A established a department for genocide research and genocide
00:07:36education within the center. Members of the department are entitled to a salary or
00:07:40compensation in accordance with the law, and the Minister. of Finance under the leadership
00:07:43of Minister Amidžić, according to the allegations in the complaint, did not take the necessary
00:07:47steps to ensure the organizational structure and financial
00:07:50resources.
00:07:53Member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šemsudin Mehmedović,
00:07:57held a press conference where he spoke about the imbalance of employed Bosniaks in
00:08:01state institutions compared to other constituent
00:08:04peoples. Mehmedović spoke about the proposed amendments to the law on administration
00:08:08that would address this
00:08:10problem. I agreed that if
00:08:14fewer than 10% of the legally established number
00:08:18belonging to each constituent people are employed in an authority, then
00:08:21candidates belonging to the people who are not sufficiently represented in the employment structure
00:08:25of each administrative
00:08:28body are prioritized
00:08:31when filling vacant positions. My proposal in urgent
00:08:34parliamentary procedure was expressly rejected by the votes
00:08:38of deputies from Republika Srpska and
00:08:40HDZ. We can ask ourselves
00:08:43why these two
00:08:46political partners.
00:08:49Before that, already in 2023, I asked the administrative inspector
00:08:53to instruct eight specific institutions
00:08:56to eliminate the imbalance of members of
00:09:00constituent peoples, Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks, as well as others, but in vain. The
00:09:03inspectorate obviously exists to fulfill the wishes
00:09:07of the HDZ Minister of Justice, Mr.
00:09:09Bunoza.
00:09:19The death toll from the powerful 7.4 Richter scale earthquake that
00:09:21hit Colombia on Monday rose
00:09:25to 265. Around 3,500 people were injured, and
00:09:29496 people are officially listed as missing. At the same time,
00:09:33almost 4,200 people were listed on an unofficial online platform
00:09:36for missing persons. Rescuers are still under pressure
00:09:40searching the rubble in a race against time and the crucial
00:09:4372-hour deadline after which the chances of
00:09:47finding survivors significantly
00:09:51Well, our main function is to wait for the
00:09:54news from the personnel who are searching the rubble for
00:09:58patients. Once they inform us that
00:10:00they have found patients, that there is life,
00:10:04we go in, we extract the patient, and
00:10:08we provide the first medical attention, stabilize them, and then transport them in ambulances.
00:10:12We have all the medical team ready and
00:10:15coordinated for that action.
00:10:18We are trying to get people out while we have
00:10:22everything ready here to help. We have
00:10:25medicines, gauze, anything to give first
00:10:29aid to people who need it. We are also helping
00:10:32people so they don't get heatstroke because the temperature
00:10:36is also very
00:10:37high.
00:10:41Firefighters in Spain continued throughout the night to battle forest fires that
00:10:44have affected almost 37,000
00:10:47hectares across the country. The largest fire in southwestern Spain affected
00:10:51more than 31. hectares and spread towards the province of Seville,
00:10:55which led to the preventive evacuation of the population. In
00:10:58northeastern Spain, in the province of Huesca, a separate forest fire
00:11:02burned 5,705 hectares of land. Authorities
00:11:06state that one person was detained on suspicion of causing
00:11:09the fire in
00:11:10Huesca.
00:11:14Japan sent a strong protest regarding Vladimir Putin's visit
00:11:17to the Kuril Islands, which was the first time that a Russian president visited
00:11:21the disputed archipelago. Russian state media reported that Putin
00:11:25visited Iturup, known in Japan as Etorofu, one
00:11:28of the four islands in the Kuril chain claimed by
00:11:32both Russia and Japan, Reuters reports. Japanese Foreign
00:11:35Minister Toshimitsu Motegi stated that
00:11:38the islands are inalienable Japanese territory, both historically
00:11:42and under international law, and that the government of Japan strongly
00:11:45protests this
00:11:46visit.
00:11:51The Northern Territories are an integral part of Japanese territory, both historically
00:11:55and according to international law. This latest visit to Etorofu Island by
00:11:59the current president of Russia is contrary to Japan's consistent position
00:12:02regarding the Northern Territories. Furthermore, it
00:12:05offends the feelings of the Japanese people and is completely unacceptable.
00:13:10observed, filmed, and photographed yesterday's partial solar
00:13:14eclipse. The moon passed between the sun and the earth, partially
00:13:17covering the solar disk. All of you who missed the phenomenon, the next
00:13:21opportunity will be on August 2nd, but only next year. Anticyclone.
00:13:25continues to support stable weather, but rain would be welcome given
00:13:28the long-term drought and active fires in Dalmatia.
00:13:32A change in weather will occur next, that is,
00:13:34in the upcoming week when we expect locally more abundant
00:13:38precipitation. The rest of this Thursday will be predominantly sunny,
00:13:41stable, dry with mostly light wind, at least in the inland
00:13:45parts of Croatia. At sea, strong bura wind is blowing, hindering traffic
00:13:49in the coastal area, and windy conditions will continue
00:13:52further. All this together then creates. temperatures, we
00:13:55expect that today will be the hottest in the area of
00:13:58Dalmatia, where values will rise to 39, inland,
00:14:01generally lower temperatures from
00:14:0527 to 32, it will be hot
00:14:08on the weekend as well, but that will also be the end of the stable period, the end
00:14:11of the heatwave, from Monday we expect
00:14:15rain, showers, in the rest of the week and a drop
00:14:17in temperatures.
00:14:21And that was all about this news overview. If you missed anything, here is our portal
00:14:27your attention, goodbye.
00:14:51Watch "Dan uživo" with Mirna Ždralović.
00:14:55Today from
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00:15:01A new day begins. Friend of the show
00:15:04Medicana Health Group.
00:15:16The affair with tens of thousands of tons of illegally disposed waste that has been shaking
00:15:20Croatia in recent days seems to be connected with Bosnia and Herzegovina during
00:15:232014. The company, as we heard, "Pramat Plast" imported
00:15:2723 shipments with a total of about
00:15:31358 tons of waste with questionable documentation into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:15:34The company had documentation for cross-border import of non-hazardous
00:15:38waste, but imported medical waste, about 40 tons were returned to Croatia and
00:16:07Let's start with the last story, or the affair, as Mr.
00:16:11Lemeš called it. How much do you
00:16:13believe it is likely that the waste we are talking about
00:16:17in Lika is exactly the waste
00:16:19that was in Bosnia and Herzegovina for some time? Well,
00:16:23those are, those are pure speculations, it doesn't matter at all whether it's
00:16:27about that waste, whether those are those specific quantities,
00:16:30the thing is that we don't have investigations to
00:16:34determine, except for this project that UNDP did where they...
00:16:37tried to map those hotspots,
00:16:40map them, there is no, there is no action to uncover
00:16:44those hotspots, to uncover the perpetrators,
00:16:47especially there is no prosecution of them. Here
00:16:50the question is perhaps also for the Prosecutor's Office of the Federation of Bosnia and
00:16:53Herzegovina, because according to the Waste Management Law,
00:16:56anyone who illegally imports
00:17:00hazardous waste, exposes himself to
00:17:03the risk of a prison sentence of one to five years in Bosnia and
00:17:07Herzegovina, since environmental laws exist, since
00:17:11the crime of environmental pollution was introduced
00:17:14into the Criminal Code, we have only one, only
00:17:17one case where the Prosecutor's Office
00:17:19prosecuted such
00:17:22crime, it is about Gikil Lukavac, where
00:17:26the main perpetrator left the country, all other
00:17:29criminal acts are actually just forest theft, and Mr.
00:17:33Kalaba, how many such places,
00:17:36landfills. parts that the professor is talking about that
00:17:40could surely or should have long ago come under the scrutiny of the
00:17:43prosecutor's office?
00:17:47well, I think, here's a relatively simple example, how many
00:17:50times have you seen, while traveling, piled up old
00:17:54wooden railway sleepers that have been replaced?
00:17:57They are, for example, prepared with very
00:18:01very toxic chemicals that are in the European Union, maybe even here
00:18:04now already banned, so it's very difficult to get into... tracks. What
00:18:08was done through this UNDP project that Professor
00:18:11Lemeš mentioned is that some of the biggest ones
00:18:15were located, with the caveat that one piece of information, which is a half-
00:18:18information, I received it unofficially, even for a larger
00:18:22location, there was an option to
00:18:25uh procure funds for remediation, but that
00:18:28from the institutions that should have reacted there was not enough interest, so
00:18:32we are talking not only about criminality,
00:18:35we are sometimes talking about incompetence or
00:18:38disinterest of institutions. Uh, we have
00:18:41a terrible lot of generally illegal landfills, that's true,
00:18:45we have most landfills, official
00:18:48landfills that are legal, they are not sanitary as such, and
00:18:52all sorts of things end up there, from animal waste, which is
00:18:55the smallest problem in this context, this, but still
00:18:58a problem, this, and up to medical
00:19:02and other types of waste, this, there are also, as the professor
00:19:05said in the clip from before... very porous borders that are very
00:19:09questionable, I mean, smuggling is happening, this, we see that
00:19:12people from different clans, this, enter and leave the country as they wish,
00:19:16so this waste should not be a big problem and
00:19:19also the mentioned incinerators that
00:19:22are opening, that is, incineration, for now, we hope that it will remain only in
00:19:25cement factories for now, we have that RDF refuse derived fuel, that is
00:19:29pellets from processed waste,
00:19:32uh, it's very, they are very potentially problematic because...
00:19:35uh, not every RDF is the same and it's very questionable what
00:19:39the ingredient is there, and how declarations, labels
00:19:43are made, how it looks between
00:19:46importers, exporters, freight forwarders,
00:19:50at the borders and so on, again, porous borders are a very big
00:19:53problem, that's exactly why I asked the professor this question,
00:19:57so what if the waste in Lika ended up being waste
00:20:00from Bosnia and Herzegovina, actually putting the focus
00:20:04on cross-border cooperation. or rather the porosity of borders, so
00:20:07let's try to clarify that cyclical path, how it
00:20:10actually looks, how the procedure looks when waste
00:20:14from Croatia enters Bosnia and Herzegovina and who must give permission, who, among
00:20:17other things, also controls what is in the truck, how does that
00:20:21pass? I don't know what the situation is in Republika Srpska and
00:20:24Brčko District, I assume it's similar, I know according to federal
00:20:28regulations, hazardous waste cannot pass,
00:20:32so legally. It couldn't pass, so
00:20:35it's probably then hidden in, packed
00:20:39into some other some other
00:20:42waste packaging, whether every shipment is physically inspected?
00:20:46Does everything come down to documentation, well it's impossible, it's impossible to physically
00:20:50inspect everything, so it's based on documentation, mostly on documentation
00:20:53possibly sampling if something is suspected to be wrong,
00:20:56so that's very difficult, otherwise that documentation is
00:21:00so strictly controlled, here we recently
00:21:04had an example where we through a project provided
00:21:07humanitarian aid, i.e. a donation from
00:21:10Slovakia, a device for purifying drinking water,
00:21:13mhm, that shipment had to be returned to the European
00:21:16Union, meaning we paid double transport costs just because
00:21:20one sentence on the export declaration was not correct,
00:21:23meaning instead of returning the declaration, the entire shipment
00:21:26was returned, meaning those customs regulations are
00:21:30extremely strict, mhm and some are
00:21:34made to suffer, here in this
00:21:37case where it should be something of general interest,
00:21:41and where you have that it's probably corruption
00:21:44then, that someone is bribed to turn a blind eye
00:21:47so that such shipments pass even
00:21:51through these legal border crossings. Is the situation
00:21:54the same, Mr. Kalaba, in Republika Srpska? How much
00:21:58knowledge do you have about Brčko District, and
00:22:01has the responsibility of those who failed to
00:22:05determine the contents of a truck ever been
00:22:08established?
00:22:14Basically, I think the laws, if word for word, then
00:22:1799% are harmonized. Uh, I mean, I
00:22:21can speak from personal experience, since I spent three, about three or four
00:22:24months, this, when I was finishing college, this, I spent
00:22:28working in freight forwarding, in Gradiška,
00:22:31the border crossing in Gradiška is one of the most important in the country and
00:22:35busiest, this,
00:22:39I mean, that was my own, so to speak, and instead of
00:22:42studying psychology, but on the other hand,
00:22:45it was a very, very sobering moment for me how things work in this
00:22:49country, and how borders work,
00:22:52uh, so basically, I mean, we live where
00:22:55we live and everything is very flexible if
00:22:59the right people, a sufficient amount of capital, unfortunately it's still
00:23:03like that, you have cases, I mean, CIN and other
00:23:06investigative portals
00:23:10every now and then write about some people
00:23:14who were suspended and then returned to work, you have people, you have
00:23:17sanitary inspectors, for example, who... open a truck, among
00:23:21other things, not only because of corruption, but simply because of the nature of the work in terms of
00:23:25the amount of material, the truck is opened, the first
00:23:28bale is looked at, things are not pulled out and so on, it's mostly based
00:23:33professor said, this, I mean, one of the
00:23:36most amusing situations was this, when an older
00:23:39freight forwarder told me, you see that guy in the black jumpsuit from this team for
00:23:42suppressing smuggling, I said yes, well, he used to be a customs officer
00:23:46here and was suspended for smuggling, now they've put him back in that team.
00:23:50Everything is clear
00:23:51and
00:23:56have you done anything about it, can
00:23:59you actually, when, you know, you're in the system, someone
00:24:03who's on an internship or trying
00:24:07to learn how these
00:24:10flows work, can anything
00:24:11be done?
00:24:15Well, generally my rule is not to end statements and dissuasion with
00:24:19defeatism. So, it definitely can be done,
00:24:23a lot can be done, but people have to be very united. Uh, again,
00:24:27something that can be done is the fight against
00:24:29incinerators, since that is indeed
00:24:31importing
00:24:34under a wider door, actually for manipulation, for importing
00:24:37all sorts of things, and of course, to defend as much as
00:24:40possible the ban on the import of hazardous waste until
00:24:44further notice. From a technical perspective, there is still a lot to be
00:24:47done, definitely, and and and something needs to be done with that
00:24:51hazardous waste, uh, so it's not
00:24:55ruled out that some treatment plants will eventually be necessary, but that
00:24:58would be done, because, for example, one of the things I
00:25:02say, uh, whatever is done related to waste must
00:25:05be very close to larger administrative centers,
00:25:09I mean, I say that somewhat jokingly, it must be in the center
00:25:11of Banja Luka, this, because, you see, all these cases, they were mostly,
00:25:15most of them were this Drvar, Bosansko
00:25:19Grahovo.
00:25:29those places that suffer from depopulation, which somehow overlap with perhaps some
00:25:32of the most valuable natural resources,
00:25:35this, so it's possible, but
00:25:39many people I think, and political awareness as such,
00:25:42we had cases where the local community fights against whether
00:25:46it's a mine or something, and then they vote again for the same people who did it. So, that
00:25:50political maturity needs to be at a much higher level,
00:25:53and the fight must not stop,
00:25:56no matter what, even if it seems futile. What about
00:26:00subsequent checks? In this specific case, we're talking about
00:26:0323 shipments, 358
00:26:06tons, so waste. If
00:26:10one shipment, Professor Lemeš, was returned, is there
00:26:13some system of subsequent checks? What about the other
00:26:17shipments? Are they even being tracked? Well, if you say that they enter the
00:26:21country based on valid documentation,
00:26:24are they tracking where they end up? Well, logically, someone
00:26:27should conduct additional control,
00:26:30but usually... "Here, those who engage in such
00:26:34crime are very connected with political structures,
00:26:38so it's simply a phone call,
00:26:41let it go, don't do it, hide it in
00:26:44a drawer. I mean, unfortunately, we live in a country
00:26:47that has turned corruption from an incident into a way of life,
00:26:51and it seems that the general public accepts
00:26:54corruption as, well, we know there's corruption, let's see how I
00:26:58can fit into that. I think we need to completely."
00:27:02change our way of thinking. We once had the illusion,
00:27:06"Here we are, we will be a candidate for EU membership, and when
00:27:10we join the EU, everything will be perfect,
00:27:13corruption." There is corruption in the European Union. 15
00:27:17years ago, at a conference, I heard information that
00:27:21the Italian mafia, there's Italy in the European Union,
00:27:25the Italian mafia has reoriented itself from
00:27:28human trafficking, weapons, and drugs to waste trafficking, because
00:27:32it pays off more for them. It's simply more profitable,
00:27:36Northern Italy generates huge quantities of waste, and it's very
00:27:40expensive, according to EU regulations, very expensive, to dispose of that
00:27:43waste. Companies are paid to dispose of it,
00:27:46then it's transported and dumped in the south of Italy, polluting the soil,
00:27:50polluting the land, destroying m, cheaply
00:27:54bought agricultural estates. Now you have
00:27:57huge plantations with greenhouses
00:28:00in the south of Italy, and we probably eat those
00:28:03tomatoes, tomato plantations
00:28:06that are on polluted soil, that
00:28:10absorb heavy metals and all those toxins from the soil, and
00:28:14migrants fleeing Africa work on those plantations,
00:28:16so it's all connected to crime, and that crime is
00:28:20European. So, we somehow have the illusion that when we join
00:28:23Europe, there will be no crime or corruption. There will be. We have to
00:28:27change. But yes, what you're saying is interesting, and even when we talk about
00:28:31imports, I always... I mention imports because
00:28:34the latest scandal says the most about it. But, uh,
00:28:38if someone, Professor, declares cheaper non-hazardous plastic waste
00:28:41but actually imports medical or hazardous waste, where is the
00:28:44potential profit there, where is that logic, or is it
00:28:48actually uh
00:28:51that large profits are made in these cases actually because
00:28:55the disposal of hazardous waste is much more expensive than the disposal of
00:28:58non-hazardous waste? Is that the logic? That's right, that's pure logic. It's
00:29:02pure greed, where mm people see an opportunity,
00:29:06see, I, I, this is expensive to pay for, I will
00:29:10take it, and I will not dispose of it at all. No one will
00:29:13control me. If someone controls me, I will somehow
00:29:17cover it from the profit I make. So
00:29:20somehow this sounds like
00:29:23an open invitation for people to engage in crime, because there is
00:29:26indeed a large profit. But it is not actually an invitation
00:29:30to institutions to act to prevent that crime,
00:29:32to cut it off, to strictly punish it.
00:29:36I will repeat that there have been no convictions for the criminal
00:29:39offense of environmental pollution. I call on
00:29:42prosecutor's offices to roll up their sleeves, to take
00:29:45a look, at least to look at what investigative journalism
00:29:49is doing, to listen to what is being said in the media. There's
00:29:52enough work for them, they can put it in their plans for next year, so that
00:29:56prosecutor's offices start prosecuting that
00:30:00crime, so that courts finally...
00:30:02"decide that someone ends up in prison for polluting
00:30:06the environment, for destroying nature and endangering the health
00:30:10of citizens.
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