Incidents in Skopje with ten arrests: Albanians burned North Macedonian flags

Incidents occurred late last night in Skopje, during Albanian flag day celebrations. Young Albanians, among other things, tore up and burned North Macedonian flags in Skopje’s Albanian quarter, Čire, in the center of the city, and shots were fired in the air. North Macedonia’s Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said ten people were arrested for last night’s incidents, for participating in clashes with the police and for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred. Those arrested are young, including minors. The incidents were condemned by all North Macedonian parties The ruling VMRO-DPMNE noted that the provocation of last night’s incidents has a political background and that the aim of their instigators was, through ethnic issues and divisions, to impose themselves on the public debate, in the absence of a convincing political proposal. The Prime Minister of North Macedonia and leader of VMRO-DPMNE Christian Mickoski condemned the desecration of the country’s national flag and noted that “the government will respond strongly to all provocations […]
Source: News Beast

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