After six days spent without electricity displaced persons in former hotel ‘Junior’, which has been turned into a shelter, are reconnected to electricity supply, communicated Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija.  Communique further reads that collective centers in Brezovica won’t be charged with the higher industrial tariff for electricity consumption any more, as was the case so far.

According to displaced persons from 'Junior' the debt for unpaid electricity bills amounting to EUR 2.200, which led to their disconnection, came as a result of the higher industrial tariff that they were charged with as of November last year.

Electricity was reconnected last night around 21:30. “Electricity is back. We don’t know whether anyone has paid the bill,” said Zoran Janjic, displaced person from Uroševac/Ferizaj.

Electricity was reconnected to other two shelters in Brezovica too, but only after displaced have paid the bills themselves. Displaced in shelter centers are due to pay for electricity consumption over the limit of 330 kWh, which is covered by the Commissariat for Refugees.