A Bloody Night in Parliament
But the court in Skopje recently rejected journalists’ lawsuits against the state, citing a “lack of evidence.” They had sought financial compensation and non-pecuniary damages. The trial of the organisers of the attack, highly-ranked members of the VMRO-DPMNE party, is ongoing. One of the defendants is former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
Four years later, on April 25, 2021, I am reporting live outside parliament. Ten-thousand people are protesting behind me demanding freedom for the people convicted of storming into the press centre of the Macedonian parliament on that evening when I could easily have lost everything.
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