The civic initiative Healthy Split called on the people of Split, as well as residents of surrounding towns and villages, to a new protest on Friday, where they will demand for the third time that the Italian ship Moby Drea, which contains asbestos-filled panels, be towed from the shipyard port and the city.
They announced that they will not give up on their demand and that a new protest will take place on Monday at 11 am on Matejuška, from where they will walk across the Riva, Voćni trg, Pjaca, through Marmontova, and all the way to the fountain on the Riva.
Danijela Weber said that the Initiative has so far sent official letters to numerous addresses, including prominent officials, but they have not yet received a response from anyone. The only one who has responded is the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, which says it is not competent for the case.
"Despite that, they gave us guidelines, and they said that this case can only be agreed upon between Croatia and Italy. To this day, we do not have an answer to the question - why did the Moby Drea arrive in Split. Others do not know anything either because everyone is washing their hands. We believe that it should finally be discovered how this ship entered our territorial waters, or who allowed it to do so," said Weber.
Ante Tešija pointed out that they are not interested in what they are currently doing on the ship, specifically whether they are moving furniture, but rather in the asbestos panels. He asked why a solution is not being reached if it is forbidden to unload such waste in Croatia, because it is clear that this is about asbestos trade.
"It's a shame for this country that it didn't stop the ship because it's not a ship. It's actually nothing. There's no captain, no engineer, nothing. It's a ghost ship. This is all a game with us, one time they say it's going to the scrapyard, and the next time it's going to be refitted and sailed again. So who's crazy enough to send us something that's not dangerous and earn 500 thousand euros. Believe me, they would earn that, they wouldn't leave it to us. Thank you, we don't need that money," Tešija pointed out.
He went on to say that we are up to no good if we allow ourselves to be deceived, because then the state drowns itself and loses its sovereignty. "That ship of ghosts should be turned around and dragged across Vis and the border, let it leave here," said Tešija
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