ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Unassigned police who have been protesting in Zagreb's St. Mark's Square for 554 days on Wednesday once again requested the government and the interior ministry to acquaint them with the criteria by which they
were laid off and urged that their status be settled.
ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Unassigned police who have been protesting
in Zagreb's St. Mark's Square for 554 days on Wednesday once again
requested the government and the interior ministry to acquaint them
with the criteria by which they were laid off and urged that their
status be settled. #L#
The officers called on MPs to start a debate on their status during
this parliament's last session, currently underway.
Their leader Filip Lacic said Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic
and Prime Minister Ivica Racan arrogantly ignored their requests.
"Somebody should say what will happen to us," Lacic said, adding
that their patience was running out and they were thinking about
collective suicide.
Lacic estimates there are 500-600 laid-off police, and that about
30 are protesting in front of the government around the clock.
Berislav Zivkovic, the attorney representing them, said the
Administrative Court had dismissed their lawsuit. They cannot
appeal because they have been unable to get the criteria by which
they are unassigned, he said.
Today's press conference was called to mark one year from the day
when special police attempted to remove them from in front of the
government building.
Today the police were visited and supported by Croatian Democratic
Union's vice president Jadranka Kosor and MPs Vladimir Seks and
Juraj Njavro, Social Liberal Party secretary-general Dorica
Nikolic and MP Juraj Njavro, and Croatian Bloc's Ivic Pasalic.
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