Spiro Ristovski, who was the Minister of Education in the government of Nikola Gruevski, last week, in a statement to Deutsche Welle, encouraged VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs to get involved in parliamentary activities, pointing out that it was not surprising that a second group of opposition parliamentarians was ready to join the processes of reconciliation and the […]
On April 27, last year, the chain of command was transferred from the police to the party structures and from the police became partisan police, said Zvonko Davidovic, lawyer of defendant Aleksandar Vasilevski-Ninja for the events of 27 April in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. -Party structures took over the command of the […]
“For united Macedonia”, was formed by VMRO-DPMNE and had fictitious leaders. At the protests of “For a united Macedonia” 80 percent of the present were from VMRO-DPMNE that provided all the requisites that were used. I have seen all the leaders of the protests at Kiril Bozinovski headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, said the defendant Aleksandar Vasilevski-Ninja […]
Without a specific framework for a possible selective amnesty for the suspected in the April 27 events, a few minutes before the first session of the Coordinative Body for Reconciliation, which was sitting behind closed doors, ended. According to the preliminary information, no text is still being offered as a framework around which could be […]
The MPs, who opened the doors of the Assembly to the protesters on April 27, 2017, are now “suspected” as possible voters of the government’s proposal to start the constitutional changes. Such an impression was created yesterday rafter equests for the release from house arrest of three of the five deputies covered by the process […]
SDSM MP Muhamed Zekiri, who today is testifying on the events of April 27th, said that he was in one of the interpreters’ cabins in the gallery of the parliamentary press center from where he heard the crowd cursing and asking where is “Muki Zekiri Shiptar”. He testified that the crowd shouted “We will kill […]
With the hearing of witnesses proposed by the prosecution in the Criminal Court in Skopje today, the trial about the events in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia on April 27th, last year, continued today. At today’s hearing, as announced, several witnesses should be heard, among them Petre Shilegov and Muhamed Zeqiri. At the […]
The 33 people accused for participating in the violent storming of Parliament in April 2017 at a hearing on Monday pleaded not guilty after saying they understood the charges against them. Of those, 31 are charged with ‘terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order’ and two are tried on ‘complicity’ charges. The trial continues on August […]
Reputable people who recited and sang in front of the Parliament, MPs who waved their hands without making any signs to open the door of the Parliament and let the crowd in, a policeman who saved the life of MP Zijadin Sela and a minister who safely evacuated the people who were inside the Parliament, […]
Patriots welcomed the accused of terrorist threat to the constitutional order and security in front of the Criminal Court building with patriotic songs, zurlas and drums, and the Vergina flag. Before the trial started, a group of citizens with slogans in their hands gathered in front of the new court building and with ovations they […]
At its regular session on Wednesday, the government appointed Saso Tasevski for the Public Security Bureau (PSB) Director. Now ex-PSB Director Laze Velkovski was released from duty over a scandal with a official state car. The incoming one, Tasevski, is a holder of master degree in security and future PhD of the Skopje-based Faculty of […]
The trial of the thirty men accused of being involved in the events in Parliament on 27 April 2017 has started Wednesday in Skopje-based Criminal Court. Among the defendants are MPs, artists, members of the Ministry of Interior, the security services and parliamentary security, who are indicted for terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order and […]
Former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov, four MPs, opera singer Igor Durlovski, social media influencer Bogdan Ilievski, director Boris Damovski, actor Vlado Jovanovski, Aleksandar Vasilevski – Ninja, will be seated on the defendant’s bench today. The accused, along with twenty other people, will be tried for the violent parliament storming that took place on April 27 […]
Judge Slavica Andreevska of the Skopje-based Criminal Court delivered Thursday the verdicts to seven individuals indicted for the attempted murder of MP Zijadin Sela during the Parliament incidents on 27 April 2017. Kire Gjorgjievski has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, Andrej Micov 10,5 years, Oliver Osavkovski 10,5 years, Nikolce Dimitrievski 10,5 years, Aleksandar […]
The court pronounced the first prison sentences for the attack on the Assembly, which took place on April 27, 2017 in Parliament. Stojan Pavleski was sentenced to three years in prison, and Cejo Gjorgievski was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for the criminal act of violence, that is, about the violent […]
One of the suspects in the “Bloody Thursday” case, Aleksandar Vasilevski – Ninja, surrendered himself yesterday to the Criminal Court before a judge in a previous procedure, and was immediately transferred to the Sutka Investigation Prison. Ninja was at large for seven months, although he was detained for participating in the attack on MPs and […]
They do not know why they entered the Parliament on April 27 last year, nobody put pressure on them, but after eight months spent in prison and in house arrest, they realized that they have made a mistake and regret what they did. The defendants Cejo Gjorgievski and Stojan Pavleski, who were originally charged with […]
Former interior minister Mitko Cavkov has been once again released from pre-trial detention, said the director of the Skopje prison. Earlier, the Appellate Court upheld a decision of the Criminal Court allowing Cavkov to post bail, estimated at €600,000 in assets, that guarantees he won’t flee after being released from prison. Cavkov, who served as head […]
One year after the violent events in Parliament, Talat Xhaferi urged Friday that the events of ‘Bloody Thursday‘ should never happen again. “After one year I am once again here (in press center) and I have the same feeling recalling the situation when in a split of a second I was supposed to think about life or death. […]
“The men who stormed the Parliament and its press center were threatening us that they would kill all of us and that no one would make it”, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said Tuesday while testifying in a Skopje court. He was called to testify before the Criminal Court in Skopje as a witness in a […]
