PM: "Criminal failures" will be investigated

PM: "Criminal failures" will be investigated

PRIBOJ -- PM Aleksandar Vučić says the prosecution would initiate proceedings in cases where there were criminal offenses related to failures in the flood defense effort.

"The prosecutor will take measures and actions and where there is a criminal offense they will launch proceedings, and where there is none, they will not," Vučić told reporters in the town of Priboj, southwestern Serbia.

He made the statement when asked to comment on the questioning on Thursday of Obrenovac Mayor Miroslav Čučković.

There will be more such questionings , he remarked.

Vučić was quoted as saying that he was "ready for any other type of responsibility."

"I expected serious and fierce attacks and in the end - nothing, as usual," Vučić commented.

More interviews are being conducted by the Belgrade police about possible failures to alert residents of the flood-devastated Obrenovac in a timely manner, and about the introduction of a state of emergency, and behavior during that time.

Deputy Mayor of Obrenovac Dragoslav Mršević is giving his statement today, while Criminal Police chief Nebojša Marković told Tanjug that the head of the emergency situations department for the area of Obrenovac will also be questioned.

"Great day"

Aleksandar Vučić was in Priboj today for the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Serbian government and the Finnish SISU company, under which Priboj-based heavy commercial vehicles maker FAP should start producing trucks in September, with a contract to be signed by late August.

The document was inked on behalf of the Serbian government by Minister of...