Deputy Prime Minister RMV reveals how it was threatened with life: E-mail came in.

Arben Fetai, deputy prime minister in northern Macedonia, was this Monday in a direct link to Euronews Albania, where he spoke more about a threat made several days ago against him.

The deputy prime minister said that at the official address of his e-mail an unidentified person had written that he would see Fetai “taking a bullet in his head”.

According to Fetay, this threat relates to a statement he will address the issue of defining the Albanian language in the country's Constitution.

Last Wednesday I issued a statement. I was asked by journalists about the constitutional issue as well as the issue of defining the Albanian language, which to this day turns out to be the language spoken at least 20% of the population and which is different from Macedonia. We have pledged that in the first case, we will make necessary constitutional changes, within our integration process. I said we'd address the issue of definition of Albanian in the country's Constitution. This statement has been enough to make the same day in my official e-mail come a threatening e-mail where the author, the threatened, in an assitary way, says he'll see to it I get a bullet in his head. He does other qualities that he says 20% will never be removed from the Constitution. Then it goes on with those tribal calls we've seen for two decades and maybe more of the type, “The good Albanian is Albanian dead”. These calls are constantly made in northern Macedonia in public”, he said.

The deputy prime minister added that the case has been presented in competent organs, while stressing that he hopes the author will be found as soon as he gets due sentence, as the fact that a prime minister is threatened shows how easy it is for people to simply be affected as well by such racist and anti-Albanian threats.

I immediately introduced this case to law enforcement. I was immediately called by the interior minister and started procedures under the cybercrime directorate at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and institutions are doing their job of identifying the threat. I want us to see an exemplary sentence here. With our laws these life threats, hate speech like this, they are sentenced to prison in terms of six months to 5 years”, said Fetai.