Macedonia parliament on policeman killing

Smugglers may have been responsible for Wednesday death of a Macedonian officer, according to Gordana Jankulovska.

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Saturday, 27.10.2007.

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Smugglers may have been responsible for Wednesday death of a Macedonian officer, according to Gordana Jankulovska. Jankulovska, the country's interior minister, was speaking in Macedonia’s parliament in Thursday evening’s emergency debate about the ambush near the border with Kosovo, which had also left two policemen injured. Macedonia parliament on policeman killing Preliminary investigations, presented by Jankulovska, point to the involvement of a “group of criminals and smugglers who operate on both sides of the border”, and whose members have used, “various violent means and methods in the past, to maintain their cross-border smuggling channels”. Jankulovska told the deputies that according to the surviving officers, the police patrol was attacked by a group of five or six people carrying automatic weapons. During the session, the opposition Social Democrat, SDSM, deputies said the interior minister bore political responsibility for the incident. The SDSM accused the ministry of the interior of having ignored warnings about security threats and of not having provided adequate security for the police patrol that was ambushed. “These kinds of events cannot be avoided, but only minimized”, a deputy from the ruling centre-right VMRO-DPMNE party Vlatko Gjorcev, replied, defending the ministry’s stand. One of the two survivors of the attack is still fighting for his life. The other was shot in the leg on Wednesday, when their patrol jeep came under fire in an ambush near the mountainous Macedonian border with Kosovo. Meanwhile, in Brussels, Thursday, the European Commission spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy condemned the attack, calling on the Macedonian government to “conduct all the necessary inquiries“, in order to, “bring the perpetrators to justice”.

Macedonia parliament on policeman killing

Preliminary investigations, presented by Jankulovska, point to the involvement of a “group of criminals and smugglers who operate on both sides of the border”, and whose members have used, “various violent means and methods in the past, to maintain their cross-border smuggling channels”.

Jankulovska told the deputies that according to the surviving officers, the police patrol was attacked by a group of five or six people carrying automatic weapons.

During the session, the opposition Social Democrat, SDSM, deputies said the interior minister bore political responsibility for the incident.

The SDSM accused the ministry of the interior of having ignored warnings about security threats and of not having provided adequate security for the police patrol that was ambushed.

“These kinds of events cannot be avoided, but only minimized”, a deputy from the ruling centre-right VMRO-DPMNE party Vlatko Gjorcev, replied, defending the ministry’s stand.

One of the two survivors of the attack is still fighting for his life.

The other was shot in the leg on Wednesday, when their patrol jeep came under fire in an ambush near the mountainous Macedonian border with Kosovo.

Meanwhile, in Brussels, Thursday, the European Commission spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy condemned the attack, calling on the Macedonian government to “conduct all the necessary inquiries“, in order to, “bring the perpetrators to justice”.

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