Tag: smilkovsko
Macedonia 16.03.24 | 21:29

Construction of a belltower begins at the site of the 2012 Good Friday massacre

Archbishop Stefan today sanctified the foundations of the belltower that will be built north of Skopje, near the small Smilkovsko lake. This is the site where, in 2012, before Good Friday, a group of Albanian Islamists killed four Macedonian youngsters and one man, in an attack apparently meant to spark...
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 14:43

Officer injured as Albanian protesters tried to storm the courthouse, Greater Albania maps are on display

At least one police officers has been injured after Albanian protesters assaulted the police cordon in front of the Skopje courthouse. Protesters demand another repeal of the sentences of the group of Albanian islamists who carried out the 2012 Good Friday massacre, killing four Macedonian boys and one...
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 13:57

Large Albanian protest in support of the islamists who carried out the Good Friday massacre begins in Skopje

Large Albanian protest began today, after the Friday mosque prayers, from Skopje’s Cair district. Protesters will march on the main courthouse and then the Government building. Their demand is that the sentences in the Good Friday massacre are revoked. Three Albanian islamists were sentenced to...
Macedonia 05.02.20 | 15:53

“Zaev is a monster who knowingly lied about the Good Friday massacre”

VMRO-DPMNE held a press conference today to outline some of the distorting, manipulative statements Zoran Zaev gave with regard to the 2012 Good Friday massacre. Zaev spread conspiracy theories about the killing of four Macedonian boys and one man by a group of Albanian Islamists, promising that he will...
Macedonia 03.02.20 | 17:31

Perpetrators of the Good Friday massacre seen laughing after Zaev gave his testimony

Agim Ismailovic, one of the three Islamists charged in the 2012 Good Friday massacre, and two of his accomplices, were seen laughing and taking selfies before the Skopje courthouse while Zoran Zaev spoke after his testimony. Ismailovic, Haki Aziri and Sami Ljuta were among the four perpetrators and accomplices...
Macedonia 14.01.20 | 13:04

The Good Friday massacre case will be tried from the start, again

After the collapse of the TNT trial, ordered to a re-trial because a lay panel judge reached her retirement age, the same presiding judge Ognen Stavrev is also ending the 2012 Good Friday massacre trial. Judge Stavrev blinks first in the high stakes TNT trial – retrial ordered The massacre of...
Macedonia 29.10.19 | 14:49

The Good Friday massacre: One of the two Islamist gunmen hiding in Kosovo has disappeared

Afrim Ismailovic, one of the three gunmen who perpetrated the 2012 Good Friday massacre, has disappeared from the Kosovan authorities, who were supposed to watch over him over the past years. Ismailovic fled to Kosovo immediately after the killing of four Christian Macedonian youngsters and a middle...
Macedonia 28.10.19 | 15:08

Little of value revealed in the latest intercepts about the 2012 Good Friday massacre

At the court hearing into the 2012 Good Friday massacre today, the third in which wiretaps and intercepted text messages are being revealed, there was again little in the way of new revelations. The promise of evidence throwing a new light onto the case, which was made over and over again by Zoran Zaev,...
Macedonia 04.10.19 | 10:40

SPO prosecutors will again present wiretapped evidence about the 2012 Good Friday massacre

A new hearing will be held in the 2012 Good Friday massacre trial today, where prosecutors are expected to present illegally intercepted text messages from Government officials as evidence. The trial is still led by prosecutors from the disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office and the presentation...
Macedonia 05.09.19 | 23:10

Judge orders the airing of recordings about the 2012 Good Friday massacre

The Skopje court intends to hold a hearing in the 2012 Good Friday massacre on September 18th, when judge Ognen Stavrev announced that he will listen to the audio recordings proposed as evidence by the Special Prosecutor’s Office. The case was tried already and a group of ethnic Albanian islamists...
Macedonia 24.06.19 | 13:48

Father who lost a son in the Good Friday massacre says the trial will be dragged out so long as the DUI party is in power

Goran Nakevski, the father of Aleksandar Nakevski who was killed in the 2012 Good Friday massacre, told the court at the hearing today that he doesn’t expect the case to be resolved so long as the DUI party is in the ruling coalition. It will only be postponed and dragged out for years, Nakevski...
Macedonia 12.04.19 | 11:13

Macedonia commemorates the seventh anniversary of the Smilkovsko Lake massacre

Macedonia commemorates seven years since the massacre of four youngsters near Smilkovsko Lake by a group of Albanian Islamists. The attackers also killed a middle aged man, all in an apparent attempt to spark a religious war in Macedonia on the eve of Good Friday. Filip Slavkovski, Aleksandar Nakevski,...
Macedonia 29.03.19 | 15:50

Kosovo Interior Minister doesn’t know where the two Islamist killers sought by Macedonia are

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...
Macedonia 21.02.19 | 10:38

New hearing in the 2012 Islamist murder of five ethnic Macedonians

A new hearing is scheduled in the Skopje Court in the re-trial of the Islamist group which killed four young ethnic Macedonians and an adult man in 2012, on the eve of Good Friday, in an apparent attempt to begin another civil war in the country. Kire Trickovski, Filip Slavkovski, Cvetanco Ackovski,...

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