CRIMINAL NATO FORCES RAZED THE NOVI SAD CIVIL BRIDGE

At around 5 a.m. on Thursday, April 1, the NATO criminal aviation tore down the bridge across the Danube river, located some 500 metres from the centre of Novi Sad, which connects the capital of the northern Serbian province with the ancient town of Petrovaradin and its fortress. The bridge, which served exclusively for public transport, was razed by NATO aggressors with two missiles, at the time when the citizens were on their way to work. The sight is horrible: the iron bridge construction, simply torn from the two supporting buttresses, collapsed into the river leaving only its top protruding from the water. Before the NATO villains fired the destructive missiles on the bridge on the Novi Sad-Belgrade road built in 1928, several civilian vehicles and public transport buses were heading towards it. During its demolition, destroyed was the water pipeline supplying the settlements on the right bank of the Danube - Petrovaradin, Sremski Karlovci, Sremska Kamenica and other settlements with several tens of thousands of inhabitants. Strong detonations damaged the buildings on the Novi Sad Raid Victims Quay. The quay is also the site of the monument to the victims of the notorious Novi Sad raid, in which the Hungarian fascists killed and disposed of the bodies of over 4,000 Serbs and Jews, by throwing them into the ice-covered Danube. The bridge which has been razed by the fascists of the new world order is hardly 100 metres away from this monument. Also damaged were the buildings of the faculty of Philosophy, the nearby elementary school, the central library and the Vojvodina Museum.

The bridge was also torn down by Hitler's fascist army in 1944. With the bombing of this bridge, the NATO aggressor has once again confirmed his fascist strategy based on the destruction of civilian facilities and relevant infrastructure links, whereas presenting its public with a false picture of destroying only military facilities.

(C.) RJ, 1999.