April 2, 1999
The criminal NATO aircraft armada, with its two missiles destroyed the old bridge between Petrovaradin and Novi Sad.
Only a hundred meters away from the bridge there is the residential and business part of the town center so that many civilian facilities suffered great material losses. Novi Sad was attacked at five o’clock in the morning, the time when people leave their homes and start to work. It is simply incredible coincidence that there was nobody at the bridge at that time and that there are no victims. Together with the bridge, the main water supplies pipeline was destroyed and the town water supplies are cut off. Telephone installations are also cut off. Material losses are estimated at about 13 milion Deutsche marks. The citizens of Novi Sad are immensely sad and embittered.
The bridge across the Danube river, near Beška, was also hit and a lane construction was partly damaged.
As the steel bridge construction collapsed, the river traffic is blocked at the 1255th kilometer of the Danube, the most important European waterway that is 3505 kilometers long. This criminal NATO attack violates the Convention about the river traffic on the Danube, the UN Charter and European development plans.
