Kosovan Interior Minister Ekrem Mustafa insists that his police has no idea where the two Islamist killers, Alil Demiri and Afrim Islailovic, are. The two are charged in the 2012 Good Friday massacre of four Macedonian youngsters and a middle-aged man, killed near the capital Skopje.

Ismailovic’s brother Agim, who also participated in the killings, was arrested, but Afrim and Alil Demiri fled to Kosovo, where they were protected from extradition when Kosovan authorities raised a illegal weapons possession charge against them. After a while, the two were released and were never extradited.

The massacre, perpetrated on the eve of Easter, threatened to provoke wider confrontation in Macedonia, and the Government moved quickly to arrest the perpetrators and their three helpers, who were later sentenced to life in prison.

During the 2015 political crisis he provoked, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev began insisting that the has additional evidence which would throw a different light on the massacre. He refused to share this new information even after the parents of the four killed youths tearfully begged him to, but his claims were enough to prompt ethnic Albanian parties to demand the release of the arrested.

After Zaev formed his Government with the help of ethnic Albanian voters and the DUI party, the case was returned to retrial and Agim Ismailovic and the three accomplices were released into house arrest.