Mirche Adamchevsky , Skopier:
Last night, in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje held violent protests, whose participants accused the authorities of inability to suppress the rebellion of the Macedonian Albanians.
Protest shares arranged several thousand citizens and dozens of police reserve in front of the parliament. They lasted until 3 a.m. The protests began after the forces of the CFF began to export Albanian extremists from the village of Arachinovo. Dozens of police reserve, who fought with extremists in Arachinovo, displeasedly left the posts with weapons in their hands and headed to the city center where the parliament building is located. They stated that they wanted to know who gave the order and allowed extremists to leave weapons. At that time, a meeting of the President of the country Boris Traikovsky with the leaders of political parties was in parliament. The situation in front of the building was heated. Gradually, several thousand people gathered there. They demanded the resignation of the president and the government. The Minister of the Interior Boshkovsky tried to defuse the situation, but no one listened to his words. People called him a traitor and a traitor to the fatherland, and threw stones in his direction. He later again went to the audience and stated that the armed extremists would be destroyed. To the question of journalists: "How is it possible if the president talks about a truce"? - Boshkovsky replied that he was talking on behalf of the government.
About half of the eleventh it became known that on the outskirts of the city of The Tetovo during a mortar shelling, one and five police officers were killed. Upon learning of this, the crowd rushed to the door of the parliament. Reservists fired in the air, the guard did not provide any resistance. The demonstrators wanted to hear the president and prime minister, but they never appeared. People sang patriotic songs, shouted slogans against the Albanians, Havier Solan and the EU. Around midnight, Police General Risto Galevsky appeared, who called on the police to return to their posts. Another security forces said that armed extremists were shelling police posts. After that, the reservists began to leave the square in front of the parliament building.