Today marks five years since the violent intrusion in the Parliament that took place on April 27, 2017. The intrusion was preceded by a protest in front of the Parliament, which sent nationalist messages. After the election of Talat Xhaferi as President of the Assembly, the protest escalated. The crowd, which included people with phantoms, broke through the police corridor and entered the parliament press hall through the main entrance.

What the media noticed was unprecedented violence, injured journalists, MPs with bloodied heads, screams and calls for help. The assembly turned into a slaughterhouse, and the police could not or did not want to control the situation.

Five years after the "bloody Thursday", the ruling SDSM says that he was the real face of VMRO-DPMNE and said that they will never allow it to happen again.

"It will not be repeated only if all political entities in the country, not only declaratively, but essentially, unite behind democratic and libertarian values. April 27, 2017 is one of the darkest dates in the history of Macedonian democracy and Macedonian society. "In order to prevent a change of government and respect for the electoral will of the citizens, armed thugs instigated and abused by VMRO-DPMNE violently stormed the Parliament in an attempt to kill MPs, injure journalists and employees of parliamentary services," said Jovan Mitreski, coordinator of the parliamentary group. of SDSM and the coalition.

Due to personal and party interests of, as the then leadership of VMRO-DPMNE said, to save from crime and to save the regime, the state on April 27 was brought to the brink of the abyss, before the civil war, Mitreski added.

Five years later, from a country on the brink of civil war, today we are a democratic NATO member state, a friend and ally of our neighbors and the democratic world. SDSM and the parliamentary majority will never allow April 27 to be forgotten. "Together with the citizens, we will never allow such a shameful and tragic event to happen again in the Macedonian democracy," Mitreski said.

The Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, assessed that five years after April 27, nothing is the same, everything is much more advanced, the state, the institutions, especially the Ministry of Interior.

- If we talk about the event of April 27, it was a violent intrusion in the Parliament, the purpose of which was to kill MPs and not allow the takeover of power, something that does not befit a democratic society. If we compare that moment, today nothing is the same. "Everything is much more advanced, both the state and the institutions, especially the institution I lead, which is the Macedonian police," Spasovski said.

In 2017, he said, we are talking about the police, a service that violates human rights and freedoms, and we remember, he said, the big wiretapping scandal when more than 22 thousand citizens were wiretapped and their human rights and freedoms were violated.

The mayor of Kumanovo, Maksim Dimitrievski, commented on the trial for "Bloody Thursday". He said that justice must not be selective, only the subordinate and the subordinate should be stuck.

"Justice must not be selective, or punishment for all or amnesty for all, unfortunately, as always, only the subordinate and the subordinate got stuck while the screenwriter, directors and politicians came out again and agreed. History and future generations will judge who did the right thing. "Never again!" Dimitrievski wrote on Facebook.

Today in front of the prison in Prilep was held a protest on the occasion, as stated in the announcement, the unjustly convicted in the case of April 27. The protest was organized by the Patriotic Institute of VMRO-DPMNE "Goce Delchev", and was addressed by Mane Jakovlevski, President of the Union of Veterans and Aleksandar Pandov, President of the Patriotic Institute.

BLOODY THURSDAY - APRIL 27 THROUGH PHOTOS