Tag: incident

A number of gunfire shots, a scuffle with stones and bottles hurled, as well as verbal and physical violence took place yesterday evening during the protest in the capital Skopje against the European proposal for the start of the negotiations for North Macedonia's EU membership. The opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski accused that there was a police set-up and an attempt...

Andrea, North Macedonia's contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, will perform tonight in the second semifinal. At number 11, the song "Circles" will be performed in "PalaOlimpico" in Turin, Italy. According to the announcement and the video from the rehearsals, Andrea will perform alone. Out of today's 18 qualifiers, only 10 will be selected for the finals on Saturday....

Aleksandar Veleski, who is suffering from cerebral paralysis, said he wasn’t allowed on the bus of JSP Skopje with his companion dog Ben. On Tuesday, this bus company issued press release, saying that people with special needs will be able to use the bus along with their assistance dogs. As Alexandar Veleski said on his Facebook profile, today the bus...

The warden of Shutka Penitentiary, Gjoko Kotevski will hearken Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's request for his resignation because of the incident that occurred yesterday, when the detained former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristoski, were allegedly attacked and injured. -The prime minister's request is final and it will be carried out. I hope there will be enough space for me...

Former Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE MP, Nikola Gruevski said today that he had not intended to cause an incident in Parliament, when the Law on the Use of Languages ​​was adopted, but only wanted to show that he disagreed with the manner in which it was passed. During a brief adjournment in SPO's case known as "TNT", Gruevski stated that...

In the Parliament hall, after 19:00pm emotions became high, when MPs from VMRO-DPMNE gathered around the rostrum opposing the Parliament Speaker, while they were shouting and creating chaos, Ilija Dimovski from VMRO-DPMNE took the card from the Paliament Speaker, then he called security, where most of all the present MPs from the opposition were gathered around the rostrum. Before all...

Last night, just before midnight, a forty-six year old man from Skopje, was wounded in a shootout on Partizanski Odredi Boulevard. According to preliminary information, the victim has been identified as Daniel T, who immediately after the incident was taken to the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Reanimation and Intensive Care (KARIL), where he was operated on. The shootout was preceded by...

"I am sorry for the incident that occurred yesterday in Bitola involving a former MP of the SDSM. However, also at the table was the former Mayor and a former Chief of UBK (Security and Counter-Intelligence Agency). I do not want to speculate, I don’t want to put anything into a political connotation, because he makes moves exclusively in the...

One of the officers yesterday who was seriously injured in the incident on the southern border, was held for further treatment at the Clinical Center "Mother Teresa" in Skopje, while four have been released from hospital. Yesterday, during the intervention between the Macedonian security forces with a crowd of several thousand migrants who tried to illegally enter Macedonian territory from...

President Gjorge Ivanov, yesterday and today telephoned several Presidents and Prime Ministers from member states of the European Union and the Balkan corridor regarding the migrant crisis and discussed the incident that occurred on March 14, when 1,500 migrants from Greece illegally entered Macedonian territory, in the village of Moin near Gevgelija. As announced by Ivanov's office, he asked his...

“Your country fired tear gas on many people, many of them were children. Now I’m just wandering, is that why you went into politics for?” Provocatively asked the BBC journalist from Newsnight to Nikola Poposki, the Foreign Minister to Macedonia. “I don’t think this is a fair judgment”, replied Poposki. According to the Foreign Minister, Macedonia is trying to implement all...

Todor Petrov, the President of the World Macedonian Congress, one of the donors for the cross in Butel, whose foundations were consecrated by the Archbishop this morning, was seriously beaten by unknown attackers, the Ministry of Interior has confirmed. The media has reported that Mr Petrov was beaten after an event where he delivered a speech. He is currently in the...

I commend the Macedonian police officers, who handled the whole situation very well despite injured colleagues, said Interior Minister Oliver Spasvoski, who last night with Deputy Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov visited policemen who were injured in the clash with a group of migrants on the border with Greece. Deputy Minister of Interior Chavkov said that because of the specific situation,...

Two brothers and another unidentified person attacked and severely beat up three persons last night in the Kumanovo village of Lopate. The victims were taken to the medical center in Kumanovo. The incident that happened around 19:45 was preceded by a verbal altercation between the brothers and the persons who were later attacked. According to police information, the brothers F....