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Migrants hurt in North Macedonia after driver jumps from moving truck

Police in North Macedonia said on Saturday that 34 Afghan migrants have been injured in a highway accident after the driver of a truck carrying them north toward Serbia jumped from the moving vehicle attempting to escape a police patrol.

Three migrants and the Macedonian truck driver were seriously hurt on the main highway in North Macedonia after the speeding truck overturned and ended up in a 14-metre-deep (15.3 yards) gorge, the police said.

The injured, including children, were driven off to nearby hospitals.

The Balkan migrant route officially closed in 2015 when countries along it shut their borders, blocking a main passage to northern Europe. Yet thousands of people fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond continue to travel via Turkey, Greece and the Balkans in the hopes of reaching Western Europe.
 
North Macedonia must reform judiciary before accession talks can start: EU's Hahn
FILE PHOTO: European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner Johannes Hahn presents the Commission's Enlargement Package for 2019, which sets out the way forward for candidate countries and takes stock of the situation in each candidate country and potential candidate, in Brussels, Belgium May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

North Macedonia needs to reform its judiciary to ensure it can handle high-level crime and corruption cases before the European Union can set a date to start accession talks, top EU official Johannes Hahn said on Thursday.

The former Yugoslav republic changed its name from Macedonia to North Macedonia this year, ending a more than two decade dispute with Greece over its name and removing an obstacle to its membership of the EU and NATO.

It expects the new EU Commission to set a date for accession talks in October. “I’m confident that the decision (on the start of accession talks) will be taken in October,” Hahn, EU commissioner for enlargement of the bloc, said after meeting Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.

“North Macedonia has worked hard for it and now it’s time for EU leaders to deliver.”

Hahn said the government in Skopje should implement reforms to ensure the judiciary is ready to complete cases handled so far by the special prosecutor’s office. “What is important now in view of the crucial decisions in October is to adopt the law on the public prosecutor which provides important guarantees for the rule of law,” Hahn said.

The office of the special prosecutor was created under the 2015 agreement which ended a two-year political crisis in North Macedonia.

Its main task was to deal with high-level organized crime and corruption, cases that local institutions were not in a position to handle because they faced influence from politicians.

The mandate of the office expired last September, but very few cases have been completed.

Parliament is now expected to pass a law that would extend the mandate of the public prosecutor to cases handled by the office of the special prosecutor. Parliament is expected to vote on the draft law after the summer recess.
 
The US Acting Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker is trying to safe Zaev's criminal government, while sending a message to the leader of the opposition Christian Mickoski that if he doesn't accept the US Embassy's proposal about the state prosecutors law, then Mickoski would be replaced with the VMRO-DPMNE's deputy Mitko Jancev.

US diplomat believes Macedonia is not f-ed enough, calls on “opposition” to assist
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The Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi has scheduled a session on draft law on public prosecution for August 27.

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Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva is on 'sick leave' as of July 16, confirms the Special Prosecutor's Office, but refused to specify what illness is Janeva sick from.

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VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament and former Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki posted a medical report that gave Katica Janeva a sick leave.

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VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament and former Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki posted a medical report that gave Katica Janeva a sick leave.

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The doctor Ljupka Cilkova who has issued a sick leave for Katica Janeva is actually her neighbor from Gevgelija (Janeva's home town), whose husband was hired by Janeva in the SPO.

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Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska informed that the 'lost phone' used by Katica Janeva was thoroughly formatted before it was located, and all data on it was scrubbed, after digital forensic experts completed the investigation.

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Faced with growing criticism, Zoran Zaev issued a public call to prosecutors to investigate the scandal, no matter where this investigation leads.

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The Slovenian journalist Laris Gaiser has published a surveillance video, showing Bojan Jovanovski - Boki 13 carrying out a bag of money from businessman Jordan Kamcev, assuring Kamcev that Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva will help him to go free. Meanwhile Janeva is filmed getting a neck massage at a beach in Greece.

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In a new audio tapes published by the Slovenian journalist Laris Gaiser, the SPO Prosecutor Katica Janeva said to Jordan Kamcev that he should not be worried because 'everything is gonna be alright.' - Katica Janeva admitted that she was on the tape.

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Macedonia’s SPO team filmed taking cash, who then take it to Govt HQ
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Update: But, businessman Kamcev is no idiot. He hands the money in a Louis Vuitton bag. Inside the bag there was a tracking (GPS) device.

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A new audio tape published by La Verita reveals that Zoran Zaev also knew about 'Racket'. - Zaev denies any connection with Boki 13.

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Zoran Zaev said that he will not allow a few criminals, one 'vain journalist' and one 'faggot' to bring down his Government.

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Boki 13 to Zaev: 'Get me out of jail or I'll reveal how you stole millions together with Haradinaj.'

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The SPO Prosecutors from 'Charlie's Angels' to 'The Witches of Eastwick.'

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Boki 13 asks to be transferred to a psychiatric ward or he will present evidence of the Zaev's involvement in the racketeering - Prison warden denies that Boki 13 seeks transfer to the psychiatric ward.

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