Violent protests, court condemns Albanians, bails out Macedonians

Until the European Commission is implementing the crisis process in the judiciary, the country's Court, which enjoys only 8% citizens' trust, continues to bring about decisions with double standards. Today violent protesters against the French proposal were sentenced on bail. For the same work, protesters against assembled court cases, such as the Monstra case, in addition to sentences 3-5 years in prison, were also pronounced Draconic fines”.

7 of the violent protesters who took part in the crowd on July 5th, which clashed with police during protests before the Parliament against the French proposal, following admission of guilt, have been sentenced on bail. The accused could be sentenced to two years in effective prison if they commit criminal acts within the next four years. Although Code Penal predicts that until the mob protests someone loses his life or gets seriously injured as in the police case, the crowd's participants are sentenced to effective prison.

Penal Code, Article 385
If until the crowd protests someone's life or gets serious body injury or is severely damaged, the crowd's participants will be sentenced to prison from 3 months to 3 years”.

Mladen Ristovski, Ivan Josifovski, Slavco Simonovski, Bojan Stefanovski, Nikola Mihajlovski, Viktor Stoykov and Stein Shuman are the accused who accepted the work and the court cleared them of effective measures. By their actions, for nine days protesters, except that they damaged the Assembly building to the extreme scale (appreciated according to the prosecution body) and the government building, injured 54 policemen, 11 of them severely, while 2 with serious injuries until they could endanger disability. Judge Slavica Andreevska, when reading the verdict, has declared that the decision on alternative sentences stems from the age of the accused, three of whom are minors. The rest of those accused are expected to appear before the tribunal in the following days to proceed on their charges. But how did the courts operate when protesters were Albanian? Protests against the case “Monstra”, “Trimasage”, “Almiri” and “Sopot” has almost always ended with confrontations between protesters and police even though, in most cases, violence was driven by provocative agents or even by police themselves, limiting the routine of movement and placing cords with armed police officers to the teeth. Protesters against the court ruling in the case of “Monstra” for breaking some of the Supreme Court's windows, except that they had been sentenced to prison, had been given fines of up to 6,000 euros. In 2015, the six protesters arrested in Skopje, Muharem Bardhi, Adem Abdullai, Muharrem Isa, Rami Buci, Arian Rexhepi and Enur Ilyazi were initially sentenced to 3 years in prison, while after the complaint, their sentence was reduced to 2 and a half years. In March 2021, because of protests against the court ruling in the case of “Monstra” (after the retrial of the process), three people who also pleaded guilty were sentenced to 1 year in prison.

Behar Dalipi- 1 year prison
Besart Calis- One Year Prison
Saban Wessel-1 year prison

With the same formula and double standards, courts have acted on protest organisers as well. /Alsat. mk