Relatives of 23-year-old Pale Ilovska from Veles, who has been arrested for the murder of her illegitimate partner, police officer Aleksandar R. (40), want her to be released, because, as they claim, she committed the murder in self-defense, fighting for her breath while he drowning, writes Focus

Neighbors of the couple after the tragedy told local media that he often abused the woman with whom he had been in a relationship for several years. Alexander was troubled and already convicted of extortion, as well as for running over six teenagers in a car.

The case in Veles upset the public and raised a series of questions: how a police officer was allowed to pass only with suspended sentences, but also how people with problematic behavior who violated the law were allowed to work in the police, are the most common questions that need to be answered.

Ilovska was remanded in custody for 30 days. Her first cousin in the text of the petition tells of Pale's difficult life and says she decided to tell the truth, asking for a suspended sentence.

"A young girl without the care of her parents at the age of 16, 17, finds solace in the wrong person. Divorced parents, sick mother, my father's brother, her father, now dead. A sister he does not live with because of the person in question, because after the death of my uncle, he wants the whole house to be transferred to his girlfriend. They are dragged to the courts, the person in question attacks her sister with threats that he must give the house to her sister at any cost, I believe and then take it from her at any cost, and leave it on the road…

A.R.'s ex-wives they had nowhere to return to their parents, and my cousin was left alone, trapped in her own house. She has never complained to anyone that she was bullied, and she was always smiling. Imagine what she was doing on her own.

I do not support what he did, but I believe that every man would fight for his own life. Believe me, my soul hurts. Here is the truth and I hope you will find good people who would help, would fight for her, next to her, to get a suspended sentence. "I am with her, may God help her." writes in the petition.

According to the Prosecution, after a verbal and physical argument between the couple, A.R. he grabbed her by the neck with the intention of strangling her, so the suspect stabbed him in the left side of the chest with a knife, which resulted in death. She was remanded in custody for 30 days.

Following the news, details of the murdered police officer's past emerged. He has violations of the law and was twice sentenced to probation, once for a car accident that occurred in 2010 when he hit six teenagers with a car he was driving at high speed, and then for the second crime - Extortion, which he committed in 2016 before a notary public in Veles, when the murder suspect and her sister agreed on the probate procedure, and the deceased approached his sister, grabbed her by the neck and threatened her with the words "I will break your neck if you do not write her house to your sister. "