Banaanbax weyn oo ka dhacay Zagreb oo diyaaradaha dhaqaale ee dalka Croatia ku eedeeyay inay u ogolaatay inay waxyeello geysato deegaanka
Banaanbax weyn oo ka dhacay magaalada Zagreb ee dalka Croatia ayaa waxaa ka qayb galay boqolaal kun oo qof oo ku eedeeyay dowladda inay u ogolaatay inay waxyeello geysato deegaanka iyo nolosha dadka, iyadoo la sheegay inay jiraan dhaqaale dhaqaale oo aan sharci ahayn oo laga soo ururinayo meelaha la xirey.
Xaaladda waxyeellada iyo baaritaanka
Meel dhaqaale oo ku dhow magaalada Gospic, oo ku taal 200 km u jirta Zagreb, ayaa waxaa lagu xirey dhaqaale dhaqaale oo ka yimid dalalka Talyaaniga, Jarmalka iyo Slovenia, iyadoo la sheegay inay gaaraysay 35,000 ton oo dhaqaale ah.
Bishii February 2025, ciidamada iyo Europol ayaa xirey 13 qof oo la xiriira dhaqaalaha, iyadoo saddex shirkadoodna la baarayo, halka wasiirka cusub uu sheegay inuu diyaar u yahay inuu dhaqaalaha ka saaro meesha.
Banaanbaxa iyo codsiyada dadka
Banaanbaxa ayaa waxaa ka qayb galay boqolaal kun oo qof oo ku eedeeyay dowladda inay u ogolaatay inay waxyeello geysato deegaanka, iyadoo la sheegay inay jiraan dhaqaale dhaqaale oo aan sharci ahayn oo laga soo ururinayo meelaha la xirey.
Dadka ayaa codsaday in dhaqaalaha la saaro meesha, in la sameeyo qorshe cusub oo dhaqaale ah, iyo in la joojiyo dhaqaalaha, iyadoo wasiirka cusub uu sheegay inuu diyaar u yahay inuu dhaqaalaha ka saaro meesha.
Jawaabta dowladda iyo khataraha deegaanka
Wasiirka cusub ayaa sheegay inuu diyaar u yahay inuu dhaqaalaha ka saaro meesha, halka wasiirka cusub uu sheegay inuu diyaar u yahay inuu dhaqaalaha ka saaro meesha, iyadoo la sheegay inay jiraan dhaqaale dhaqaale oo aan sharci ahayn oo laga soo ururinayo meelaha la xirey.
Xubnaha deegaanka ayaa sheegay in dhaqaalaha uu geysan karo waxyeello deegaanka, iyadoo la sheegay inay jiraan dhaqaale dhaqaale oo aan sharci ahayn oo laga soo ururinayo meelaha la xirey.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Zagreb on Saturday to demand urgent action over an illegal toxic waste dump near Gospic, accusing the government of years of inaction and corruption. The protest, one of the largest in Croatia in recent years, reflects deep public frustration with authorities who have failed to remove more than 30,000 tonnes of hazardous material buried in the mountainous Lika region since 2023.
A Landmark Protest in Zagreb
The demonstration saw signs such as 'ecocide equals slow genocide' and 'halt waste import,' with many of the people in attendance also holding Croatian flags. The rally drew lawmakers from across the political spectrum, including the centre-left Social Democratic Party and Most, a smaller anticorruption party whose name means 'bridge', alongside the well-known Croatian actor Rade Serbedzija, a sign of how far the anger has spread beyond any one faction.
Police and Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, arrested 13 people in February over the illegal importing and dumping of the waste, brought in from elsewhere in the bloc since 2023. The rally drew lawmakers from across the political spectrum, including the centre-left Social Democratic Party and Most, a smaller anticorruption party whose name means 'bridge', alongside the well-known Croatian actor Rade Serbedzija, a sign of how far the anger has spread beyond any one faction.
Demands for Immediate Cleanup
The protesters called for all illegal landfills to be cleared due to them polluting groundwater, as well as a new waste management plan across the country within the next 20 days. They also demanded that the government put a temporary ban on waste imports in place. That gap between the government's assurances and the pollution findings is what brought crowds into Zagreb's main square on Saturday, where organisers demanded a complete cleanup plan with binding deadlines within 20 days and the removal of all buried waste within three months.
Many protesters said they no longer trusted official explanations for how so much waste had gone unnoticed for so long. 'This is not a tragedy, this is a crime,' demonstrator Ivan Rittinger told The Associated Press news agency, arguing that someone had profited while officials looked away. Vjekoslav Busic, who leads the Gospic Is Our Home community group that organised the march, told the crowd the failure went beyond any single official, asking who had built the institutions and appointed the people that let the pollution continue for years.
Investigation and Government Response
An investigation in relation to illegal waste dumps has been ongoing since the arrests of 13 people in February 2025, with Europol cooperating with Croatian authorities in the investigation. Four companies are also under investigation. According to Europol, most of the 35,000 tons of waste had come from Italy, but also from Slovenia and Germany, and consisted of plastic refuse and toxic hospital waste, bringing about a profit of some €4 million ($4.6 million) for the suspects, who had also likely forged documents falsely declaring plastic waste as suitable for recycling.
Conservative Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic promised the toxic waste site in Gospic would be covered by mid-October before the waste gets removed from it. Plenkovic visited the site last week and said his government had chosen a contractor to begin removing the waste, the first phase of a promised cleanup. Plenkovic has dismissed the criticism as an attempt by rivals to exploit the scandal, even as prosecutors continue investigating a Croatian company accused of burying toxic waste at several sites beyond Gospic.
