Džindić's short encounter with the police: The minister's soap bubble disappeared with honest miners' backs!

By: A. Čorbo-Zećo

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The story of the Federal Minister of Energy, Mining and Industry, Nermin Džindić, a cadre of the Alliance for Better Future, who has sovereignly ruled this sector for seven years, will ultimately be summed up in one word – destruction. Because whatever he touched, disappeared!

However, at the Third Congress of SBB in Mostar, he recently 'boasted' that this ministry was faced with strikes from various companies on a daily basis.

- We resolved them one by one. We looked for ways to systematically stop the decline. The greatest results were achieved in the defense industry. A tremendous growth was recorded compared to the previous government. I will mention a few of the most important points. The average number of employees increased by 1,500, which is approximately the size of a mine like "Kreka". The net loss of the previous government was 58 million marks, and this year it will reach a surplus of 300 million - Džindić said at the time.

Today, in front of the Government of the Federation of BiH, there are thousands of hungry miners, their families, and eight demands. People are on the brink of existence, and their fate is being toyed with by the energetic Džindić, who is not so brave, as he appeared before the miners accompanied by about ten special forces officers with shields. The miners proved they are not savages but the best sons of this country by dignifiedly turning their backs, because that police force eats the same bread as the miners, the bread with seven crusts, while Džindić has trouble buying real estate, sometimes in Bjelašnica, sometimes outside of BiH!?

All the praise he gave himself at the SBB Congress was today drowned out by a avalanche of shouts of 'thieves, thieves' and 'resignations, resignations'... The anger of honest people cannot be hidden by 'dirty' games. Because the situation in the mines is not solely the fault of Elektroprivreda, as Džindić wanted to portray to the honest workers. The miners' turning their backs and dignified stance is a message that Džindić will hardly forget.

Media appearances are not enough to hide all the idleness and crime committed to the detriment of the workers, for the sake of lobbying for others' interests.

And Džindić not only failed to improve the situation in the mines and the defense industry, but he also destroyed what was working well. The story surrounding BH Gas can and must be stopped by prosecutors who need to determine whether there was sabotage by Minister Nermin Džindić and Prime Minister Fadil Novalić regarding the obstructions and accusations against the now former director of BH Gas, Jasmin Salkić.

And while Minister Džindić protects himself and Prime Minister Fadil Novalić with public deceptions, and while he swore that gas would not become more expensive, he never answered why it did not become cheaper with the switch to the Turkish stream, as he once promised, and that it would become as much as 20 percent cheaper. Instead, gas became more expensive. 

For months, we paid double invoices to the Hungarians, and BH Gas, given the valid contract, could not avoid paying the issued invoices, because ultimately the citizens would have suffered the most. The question is why the contract with the Hungarians was not terminated before switching to the so-called Turkish stream.

And from the unresolved gas crisis, he fell into this mining crisis, one could say much more difficult, because this involves the most severe human destinies.

It is not superfluous to add the fact that prosecutors have never brought to a conclusion the story that the media uncovered, about how the federal company Pretis d.d., managed by Novalić and Džindić, bought goods from the private company TMR, whose owners are Novalić and Džindić.

The operations of Pretis and TMR were also documented by the Indirect Taxation Authority of BiH. With the money withdrawn from Pretis, Novalić and Džindić also bought a hall within the Unis Tools complex. Novalić justified himself by saying that his daughter was merely a 'holder of papers', not the owner of the company!

Corruption has eroded the system, consumed it, and the power that Novalić holds, because SDA cannot do without him at the moment, as the Government would fall, has reached the highest degree of unscrupulousness and respect for the rule of law.

Džindić today showed both arrogance and proved that some are more equal than others, because the police are not only protecting him but also the miners!

The 'mine' into which the ruling elite are leading us is deeper than any pit a miner's foot has ever stepped into, and it is impossible to bury it with lies, because the arguments carried by the dissatisfied miners are far from articles and paid PR texts about how the defense industry is flourishing, how Andelija is to blame for the miners, how we are the best in the world, when we literally have no bread. It seems that Džindić's call for reason to prevail has come too late.