Macedonia murders case: Serious progress, no suspects

Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska says that "serious progress" has been made in the investigation into the killings of five Macedonian men.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 16.04.2012.

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Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska says that "serious progress" has been made in the investigation into the killings of five Macedonian men. However, the police still had not identified any suspects, she revealed. Macedonia murders case: Serious progress, no suspects More than 100 persons were interviewed "and the perpetrators' profile has been defined", she told reporters on Sunday. "Still, we do not like to come out with any details because we need time to check material evidence from the field, and also because of the complexity of some chemical analyses that take a certain amount of time," Jankulovska was quoted as saying. The minister also said that forensic examinations suggested that a car found some ten kilometers from the murder scene in the village of Smiljkovci was previously present at the scene. During the day, the authorities confirmed that the car - a red Opel - was used by the killers. The citizens were asked to dial 199 if they had seen this car before. "We can say that thanks to the tip offs from the citizens, we ruled out some scenarios. One of the most unlikely ones was that the young men were witnesses of another crime and that this is why they were killed," Jankulovski told a news conference in Skopje earlier in the day. The bodies the victims - four young men aged 18 to 20, and a local 45-year-old villager - were discovered late on Thursday last week near an artificial lake in Smiljkovci. The murders "renewed inter-ethnic tensions", said reports, referring to relations between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians. Blaming ethnic Albanians for the massacre, a group of Macedonians reportedly last night set an Albanian house on fire. The Macedonia police announced on Saturday that the victims were shot and killed point blank from three different weapons. A screenshot of a Kanal 5 page showing the car used by the killers Tanjug

Macedonia murders case: Serious progress, no suspects

More than 100 persons were interviewed "and the perpetrators' profile has been defined", she told reporters on Sunday.

"Still, we do not like to come out with any details because we need time to check material evidence from the field, and also because of the complexity of some chemical analyses that take a certain amount of time," Jankulovska was quoted as saying.

The minister also said that forensic examinations suggested that a car found some ten kilometers from the murder scene in the village of Smiljkovci was previously present at the scene. During the day, the authorities confirmed that the car - a red Opel - was used by the killers.

The citizens were asked to dial 199 if they had seen this car before.

"We can say that thanks to the tip offs from the citizens, we ruled out some scenarios. One of the most unlikely ones was that the young men were witnesses of another crime and that this is why they were killed," Jankulovski told a news conference in Skopje earlier in the day.

The bodies the victims - four young men aged 18 to 20, and a local 45-year-old villager - were discovered late on Thursday last week near an artificial lake in Smiljkovci. The murders "renewed inter-ethnic tensions", said reports, referring to relations between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians.

Blaming ethnic Albanians for the massacre, a group of Macedonians reportedly last night set an Albanian house on fire.

The Macedonia police announced on Saturday that the victims were shot and killed point blank from three different weapons.

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