ENOUGH IS ENOUGH The public is not upset because of the driver, but because of the "Troika" government freed from responsibility and reason!

By: Rasim Belko

Tragedy. Silence. Then sadness. A young man died, a girl is fighting for her life, her leg was amputated. Three more were injured. That Thursday, Sarajevo fell silent, gripped by pain and questions: what, why, how.

I don't know if you'll agree, but somehow it feels like it happened a month ago? As if it wasn't two days ago? Why is that, perhaps psychologists should say something. To my misfortune, I remember many tragic events in this city. Sad and difficult ones. But I also remember with even more difficulty that we immediately stood up in the name of those who are no longer with us to demand justice and accountability. Today's youth also stood up, but somehow I get the impression that the effect of their standing up was managed.

Who and how did this, perhaps we will never know, but it is evident that a good part of the public ignored the cry of Sarajevo's youth who feel unsafe.

And how can they feel safe if they are dying at pedestrian crossings and tram stops? There is no safety there, it's left to luck to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Thursday's tram accident is not a consequence of chance or unfortunate circumstances, as some are trying to characterize it. That accident is evidently, and it can be seen from the video, the result of a dilapidated public passenger transport company GRAS Sarajevo. It is the product of the fact that in this city, or rather canton, construction is done randomly, without control, because when there is no control over construction and business, then there are no responsible parties.

I heard dozens of stories during, and especially after, the track renovation. There were expert sources and those who have sources in GRAS. Many, both publicly and secretly, raised the question of the technical acceptance of the track. Shortly after the accident, I saw a headline from a few years ago in which Professor Lindov warned of doubts precisely regarding the area where the accident occurred. And just a few dozen minutes before the accident in which Erdoan Morankić was killed, Ella Jovanović was seriously injured, and several other citizens, a collision occurred in Ilidža. An atypical collision in which a tram crashed into the one in front of it. The cantonal authorities hid this, no one commented on it. Because no one in the KS Government, and especially the "filmmakers of the track", Adnan Šteta and Nihad Uk, wants the issue of the track's, contact network's, and tram's operability to be raised. They boasted that they saved GRAS and offered good public transport to citizens.

How good that public transport is was shown by "Žućo", the new tram from Šteta's praises, which derailed in Ilidža during that heavy snow of 40 cm. Šteta then wrote that the video recordings were AI constructions. Here is that same video again, let him see that it is not AI.

And a few days after that incident in Ilidža, "Žućo" broke down near the GRAS garage. Do you remember those GRAS workers and the shouts: "Hey, easy, easy"...

The tragedy near the National Museum is not a consequence of chance, it is a result of continuity. Continuity of Adnan Šteta, Nihad Uk, the KS Government, and those from before cannot be excluded from responsibility.

However, those from before have not been there for more than six years, so the burden of responsibility lies with those now, whose image and likeness is Adnan Šteta. And precisely this Adnan Šteta should explain the accident which, by sheer luck, did not escalate into a tragedy. And this happened in the summer of 2025, when the trolleybus network towards Vogošća began to disintegrate in the middle section. Then, luckily and by chance, a support pole stopped on a truck, otherwise, according to claims, that network would have fallen to Skenderija. And a tragedy would have been certain there, with human and material damage.

Looking at today's protests, I heard a wise old man from Konjic who gave a definition of our society for N1 – "Struho duh" (Spirit has withered). And indeed, besides the spirit, morality has withered in Sarajevo, responsibility for what has been done, and it was not done well, for the deaths of people at stops, for the chaos that sacrifices every citizen of this city.

And that is why the entire KS Government must go. Because Uk is to blame for everything, Šteta for the trams, Katica for the police who guard drug dealers and pimp girls, the others have either been arrested or are under investigation.

There is no doubt that the "Troika" KS Government is aware of this, so they repeat like parrots that the tragedy should not be politicized. And it shouldn't be, but even without politicization, the tragedy happened, and besides the investigation having to determine criminal responsibility, there is also moral and social responsibility, and it is time for them to go. To go are those who have emptied the budget of the richest canton, and even what seemed like a good job has become tragic and dangerous.

And no, the blame should not be placed on the driver. And I see that the prosecutors in KS are preparing custody for him due to, get this, "public disturbance". The public is not disturbed by the potential freedom of the driver, but by the "Troika" government freed from responsibility and reason. Listening to the public today, I didn't hear anyone who considers the driver guilty. Other GRAS drivers are clear – he is not guilty, because they drive faulty vehicles.

And I have no doubt that he is not guilty, because when they arrest a driver while the investigation is ongoing, and the on-site investigation is not completed, then it is clear that they are looking for a culprit to hide the culprits.

The public is not disturbed by the driver, it is disturbed by the government that poses for photos and boasts when things are done, but hides in a mouse hole when chaos occurs. And the chaos is here and it will not leave. It's only a question of when it will happen again and whose child will suffer again.

I remember well, I was at the protests for Denis Mrnjavac, when the then cantonal prime minister Samir Silajdžić, quoting his son during the protests, said: "Dad, I'm scared." But no matter how much Silajdžić's son was scared, no matter how much Silajdžić defended himself with that, in the end, under the pressure of protests and the public, he gave up and resigned.

Today's "dads" in the cantonal government are not scared, because a man with a rifle walks in front of their building, they are driven in expensive limousines that they change frequently, they spend our money and still feel bold enough to kill us without taking at least moral responsibility.

It won't work. Children, keep going, bravely and stronger.

Enough is enough. One life is too many!