President Zoran Zaev's assassination was attempted, Greece's intelligence reportedly rescued

Just months after the signing of the Prespa Agreement with Alexis Tsipras, Greece's secret services had saved the life of northern Macedonia's prime minister after discovering the attempt to execute him.

The news has suggested the Vradini newspaper on Sunday, which refers to its sources in Greece's Foreign Ministry closely linked to the Intelligent Service. According to these sources, after ratification of the Skopje Parliament's Prespa Agreement by 69 votes on 20 June (The Agreement was signed on 12 June 2018 in the village of Psarades in Florina in Prespa), political tension peaked in the neighbouring country.

The VMRO-led opposition, with leader Christian Mickovski (who replaced Nikola Gruevski but has since been considered a supporter), had polarised the climate at a dangerous level, in a place where assassination attempts were not unknown.

Greek secret services inform then Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that there is great mobility in Skopje, against Zaev and Athens immediately alert the American services, which knew the reactions but did not know their depth.

The efforts of powerful organisations of the Macedonians of Australia and Canada not only expressed anger but also financed reactions in Skopje, and have tried not to ratify the agreement in parliament.

The effort was allegedly financed by just these foreign organisations and was planned by intelligence officials from third countries, who appear in Skopje as trade agents or media executives.

At the same time, Greek intelligence services inform the foreign ministry that “an aggressive action against Zoran Zaev is inevitable“, without any proven evidence leading to something more specific.

Then Prime Minister Tsipras instructed the foreign ministry to inform the neighbouring country's competent authorities and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov was the first to be informed and then announced the prime minister, Zoran Zaev, in detail.

According to the paper, it was the American agents themselves who have taken defense of the prime minister of Northern Macedonia and sent messages to foreign and VMRO embassies that they” know everything”. And in those months, Zoran Zaev had the same defence as the American president, so he apparently gave up trying to kill him.

Of course, according to Greek media, this discovery gives only the tip of the iceberg and still has many aspects of the issue. The news in question is published by all of Greece's media, as it comes to a development that followed one of the most important agreements in the Balkans in recent decades, which was achieved with much of the effort of diplomacy on both sides and continued to have reactions against and against it.

With this agreement, Macedonia resolved the name issue, in the way it also satisfied Greece. For these, Greece removed the blockade on the North Macedonia Euro-integration route. \TCh