Was VMRO-DPMNE leadership shocked by the testimonies – White palace or parapolice camp?


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 …

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Davidovic: The chain of command on April 27th turned from police into partisan police


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 …

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Vasilevski- Ninja: The protests were funded by VMRO-DPMNE


“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 …

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The reconciliation body still has not discussed “reconciliation”


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 …

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Collective amnesty is not an option – Will there be MPs to open the doors to constitutional changes?


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 …

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Zekiri: The crowd shouted “We will kill you all”, Gjorchev and Todorov defended colleagues from SDSM and DUI


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 …

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Shilegov and Zeqiri will testify on the events in the Assembly on April 27th


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 …

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Opening statements in Bloody Thursday trial: The defendants were saviors, not terrorists


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, …

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Government appoints Saso Tasevski for Director of Public Security Bureau


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 …

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The historic ‘Bloody Thursday’ trial starts


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 …

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Sela attackers sentenced to over 10 years in prison


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 …

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Sela case – Pavleski: I saved Sela’s life and they sentenced me to prison


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 …

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Former Interior minister Cavkov released from detention yet again


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 …

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