Tem<\/a>porary building permits<\/a> issued on September 19th <\/sup> that were included in publicly available documents gathered by KRIK journalists show that work on the parking lot is in progress and expected to be completed by the end of October. The entire project is estimated to cost 46.4 million dinars, according to<\/a> the documen<\/a>ts<\/a>.<\/p>\n An application for a building license on the site was at initially rejected<\/a> because Belgrade Waterfront did not provide complete documentation to authorities. The company repeated its request two days later, after which the license was issued.<\/p>\n The construction is on part of the land which previously housed the facilities of companies Iskra and Transport Peroni, which were illegally demolished on the night of April 24th<\/sup>. A permit for the <\/a>construction<\/a> within the Gallery Walk Pedestrian Zone was at first refused<\/a> by the City of Belgrade, but on the same day as Belgrade Waterfront fulfilled documentation requirements, a temporary permit was immediately issued.<\/p>\n KRIK journalists contacted both the City of Belgrade and Belgrade Waterfront, but were refused comment on their questions regarding the permits. Journalists were told to send questions by e-mail and wait for a reply. As soon as these answers arrive, KRIK will publish them.<\/p>\n Top city officials behind the demolition <\/strong><\/p>\n It had been almost half a year since the illegal demolition on Hercegova\u010dka Street in Savamala, and the public has still not been informed as to what steps authorities have carried out to uncover the people responsible for carrying out the demolition, or of those who ordered the demolition.<\/p>\n The prosecution ordered police to collect the necessary information only ten days after the buildings were been demolished. Meanwhile, a crime scene investigation was never carried out because the City of Belgrade had ordered the land to be cleared.<\/p>\n The city municipal inspectors noted that in the part of Hercegova\u010dka Street where the illegal demolition took place, the street had an “increasing number of collapsed buildings, construction and municipal waste”, after which they ordered <\/a>the land to be cleared<\/a>.<\/p>\n On the events inSavamalaon election night, state authorities, politicians and government officials madeseveral independent statements.<\/p>\n Serbian Ombudsman <\/b>Sa\u0161a Jankovi\u0107 said that police did not respond to phone calls on the night citizens on Hercegova\u010dka Street were temporarily detained by masked individuals. In a report published two weeks after the demolition, Jankovi\u0107 concluded that police did not respond because <\/a>of an order coming from the “top”.<\/a>![\"radnici-sreduju-parcelu-u-savamali\"](\"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Radnici-sre\u0111uju-parcelu-u-Savamali-1024x480.jpg\")
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