4 hours agoProsecutor issues several orders after racist calls against Albanians in Kumanovo
Periskopi(10 months ago)
(10 months ago)Kumanovo's Foundation Public Prosecutor has taken several actions to investigate the scandal in the basketball match between Northern Macedonia and Romania in Kumanovo on Saturday. In this match, racist calls to Albanians were heard from the tributaries in the Kumanovo sports hall, while there was also a government delegation led [...]
In this match, racist calls to Albanians were heard from the Tributes in the Kumanovo sports hall, while there was a government delegation led by Prime Minister Hristian Mickoski present in the hall.
The incident prompted sharp reactions in northern Macedonia, but also in Albania and Kosovo.
As Macedonian media write, Kumanovo's Constitutional Public Prosecutor is taking action after nationalist calls to the tribuna.
Kumanovo's Prosecutor's Office said it has issued several orders for investigating the case, including an order to secure surveillance cameras to identify the authors.
Kumanovo's Chief Public Prosecutor is continuing and has issued several orders and instructions for the Kumanovo Home Affairs Directorate to investigate elements of a criminal offence in calls containing hate speech from currently unknown individuals in yesterday's basketball match between Macedonia's national teams and Romania. An order has also been issued to secure surveillance camera footage aimed at identifying possible authors”, the prosecution reported.
In yesterday's Macedonian match, from the Tributes at Kumanovo Sports Palace was heard scandalous and inciting ethnic hatred, such as the infamous “slogan. The good Albanian is the late Albanian”, as well as the <x2) gas chamber for Albanians”.
Photo by the match can be found in the profile of Prime Minister Mickoski on Facebook, where he is seen as attending the match together with Kumanovo chairman and ZNAM leader Maxim Dimitrievski.
Among those present was VMRO-DPMNE deputy Brane Petrusevski, who today from the party speaker announced that his party condemns all kinds of nationalist explosions and hate speech.
He stressed that xenophobia calls came from a very small group of citizens.
The LSDM condemned the incident as an attempt to create pre-election tensions among citizens, while DUI demanded the resignations of VLEN officials.
V LEN replied that there have been many tragedies in the past affecting Albanians, but, as they stressed, there has been no resignation of DUI officials in any situation.
