After his series of articles in which he blamed Government officials of running a racketeering ring, journalist Branko Geroski says that he is receiving threats from SDSM party activists.
Geroski posted the screenshot of a comment he received from a man from Skopje, who claims that he works in the SDSM party security. The man reminds Geroski on an incident when he had paint thrown on him, and told him to be careful not to be bathed in the Vardar next – meaning thrown in the river. A casual glance through the social media pages of the person making the threats shows pictures of him with high level SDSM party officials, including with Zoran Zaev.
Prime Minister Zaev, are these the tactics your party is using now? Do you approve of this open threat? Will you do something?, Geroski called out the Prime Minister and SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev. Geroski went to the SDSM party HQ this morning, where spokesman Kostadin Kostadinov assured him that the person making the threats does not work in the party’s security detail.
The series of articles Geroski published included allegations that a top ranked official from a ruling party (clearly SDSM) and a media mogul were jointly racketeering business owners, and nearly scared a small hotel owner to death at one point. The group allegedly extracted 200.000 EUR from a former Mayor of a Skopje district by threatening to use wiretaps held by the Special Prosecutor against him, and were given a valuable piece of land in a lakeside resort ran by the ruling party.
Geroski used to be close to SDSM and supporter their Colored Revolution protests, but has since turned on them and was fired as editor of a newspaper set up to promote SDSM positions. In his latest article, he adds a few more party officials to the list, using monikers, and names one of them as a Government adviser who comes from a neighboring country and opposed its Government only to patch things up with it recently. According to Geroski, this is complicating the political situation in Macedonia, as this neighboring country is interfering in Macedonian politics. All persons involved in his claims are easily recognizable, but for legal purposes Geroski insists to use made up names.
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