Witness claims Policeman did not hit Martin Neskoski

Donnerstag, November 03, 2011

Igor Spasov, the policemen who was in custody prior to his Court appearance for Neskovski's death claims he had nothing to do with it.

To complicate things further, an emotional witness R. Radevska said she was there and never saw the policeman hitting Neskovski. She was disturbed by untruthful writings in some newspapers that the policeman had struck Neskovski.

Radevska claimed not Igor Spasov, but other members of security constantly warned Martin Neskovski to stay away from the podium where Macedonia's Prime Minister was delivering a speech. Martin had attempted to climb on the podium twice.

The third time Martin tried to climb he was overheard saying "now you will see what's going to happen" upon which Igor Spasev told him to stop and started chasing him. 

Spasov who was one of the security team for the politicians that evening said he went out after Martin who had tripped on TV cables and fell hard on the asphalt. 

Spasov says he thought Martin was pretending to be hurt, however quickly realized he wasn't and asked an uniformed policeman to call 911. Because Spasov's job was to be personal security for the politicians he couldn't stay next to Martin and wait for the ambulance so he went back.

The next day, says Spasov, he heard on the news a man (Martin) was dead and he was the suspect even though when he was there, although he appeared hurt he was certainly alive, says Spasov.

On his end, the policeman is certain of his innocense and is asking for a polygraph test, adding he had no motive, nor reason to hurt Martin.

There were numerous protests in relations to this incident, all initiated by the opposition SDSM, even though Martin Neskovski himself was a VMRO supporter and a member. The protests were organized not really to protest police violence as much as the SDSM saw an opportunity to organize protests and mar the election win of the current Government.

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