Electricity cut off to Serb radio station
A Pristina-based electrical company in Kosovo on Wednesday cut off power to the Culture House in Caglavica.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The building houses offices and studios of Radio KiM, an infirmary, a library, and a private store.
Workers of the company, KEK, said they cut off power because of unpaid bills, even though the radio has been paying its bills on time since KEK started charging for electric energy, the radio's website said.
KEK cut off the electricity during Radio KiM's morning news, without previous warning.
The radio station said that the KEK workers were brash and loud when they dropped off the notice on the power supply cut in the hallway. The notice read that the customer's electricity is being cut off for the unpaid debt of EUR 134, without specifying the debt period.
Radio KiM's journalists said that they did not manage to get an explanation from the KEK personnel, since they refused to speak Serbian.
The statement also said that when asked to wait several minutes until the station's management arrived with bills proving that there was no outstanding debt, the KEK workers refused, and changed their original explanation by saying the electricity was cut "because of some bill from 2009 that was not paid".
