The Gruevski-crime: Helped Hungary and the Macedonian Ex-Prime escape?

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Research of the Deutsche Welle indicate that Hungary Nikola Gruevski helped to flee from Macedonia. A Dilemma for Skopje, because that could jeopardize the Euro-Atlantic Integration of the country.

Is literally behind him: Orban (right) and his asylum-seeker Gruevski

The escape of the Macedonian Ex-Prime Minister from his home to Hungary is like a political Thriller. Even Nikola Gruevskis declared patron Saint, Viktor Orbán, called, with a certain Nonchalance in the meantime, an “interesting story, exciting as all detective stories”.

Most of the details of this crime are known and officially confirmed: Gruevski is convicted of corruption by law to two years in prison and a further four are in process. Instead of going to the prison in Skopje, he appeared on 10. November in the Hungarian Embassy in Tirana. The next day he was accompanied by Hungarian diplomats in Embassy vehicles on Montenegro and Serbia to Hungary, where he died on the Morning of the 12. November arrived.

It is unclear how Gruevski of Macedonia to Albania fled. The Macedonian government is struggling with a response. No wonder: no Matter, how it fails – it throws a bad light on the reform Cabinet led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Either his government was not competent enough to monitor Gruevski, despite the well-known escape intentions, or you can let the convicted offenders silently escape. A particularly unpleasant: this Thursday, the European Parliament discussed the situation in Macedonia – this is also the case, Gruevski will come to the language.

April 2017 – supporters of former Prime Minister Gruevski storm the Parliament in Skopje

Gruevskis four apartments: Two as a stealth addresses?

A research team from the Deutsche Welle has now carried details of the escape of the Ex-Prime Minister of Macedonia to Albania. Accordingly, the Macedonian Ex-Prime Minister has brought in his personal environment the impression that he was preparing on the detention prior to the departure, while he planned, in reality, his escape to Hungary via Albania. Thus, according to the research, the result could have also helped Hungarian diplomats. A Reporter of the Deutsche Welle spoke with neighbors Gruevskis, employees of the hotel Marriot in Skopje, Gruevski was last seen, staff from the Department of protection of persons of the interior Ministry, which were also for Gruevski, as well as officials from the financial and judicial authorities.

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According to information from the Deutsche Welle Gruevski took in his house in the centre of Skopje, a total of four apartments, although officially only two. The other two he could have to escape the beginning used in order to disguise his stay. In the days before his escape Gruevski to guards his six body numerous questions about the logistics of Macedonian prisons and you have been instructed to buy him in prison-appropriate clothing. They therefore had the impression that he wanted to begin his detention. Contact with them he had last seen on the evening of 8. November. At the same time, Gruevski will have in the days before his escape, a total of around 100,000 euros from its Macedonian Bank accounts lifted.

Last witness, the Deutsche Welle interviewed, Gruevski on the evening of 8 wants. November saw, as he left the Marriott Hotel in Skopje, belonging to his Cousin Saso Mijalkov, the former much-feared head of the secret service of Macedonia. Mijalkov lived until his arrest on 21. November in the Hotel. Multiple sources confirmed to Deutsche Welle that were to be found in the last three weeks in the underground garage of the Marriot several times the vehicles of the diplomatic mission of Hungary in Belgrade. This may indicate that Hungarian diplomats Gruevski helped in the escape planning.

Escape without the help of hardly conceivable

At the request of the Deutsche Welle, a spokesman for the Hungarian government did not want to comment on this information. He pointed to earlier statements, according to which the Hungarian government was not to escape Gruevskis from Macedonia to Albania involved. The political scientist and foreign policy expert András Rácz from the Budapest Institute of Political Capital considers this unlikely, however. “Gruevskis away from the Embassy in Tirana via Montenegro and Serbia to Hungary has been extremely thoroughly organized”, as Rácz. “Given this, it would, in my view, strange, if the Hungarian government Gruevski has not helped with the escape from Macedonia, or at least in the Details was inaugurated.”

Long time best friends: Gruevski 2012 to visit with Orban in Budapest

So, it looks, the opposition politician and independent member of Parliament Bernadett Szél. “In the mosaic of information, the government’s claim that it had to do with Gruevskis escape from Macedonia, nothing questionable appears,” says Szél. Last week, Szél asked in the Hungarian asylum authority BMH for details of Gruevskis asylum procedures as a member of Parliament, she has the right to do so. Her conclusion: “A legal basis for Gruevskis Transfer by three Western Balkan countries and the entry to Hungary. It required political decisions and a timely and careful organization of the escape in all sections.”

Macedonia’s Problem with NATO

The governments of both countries, particularly, however, the Macedonian, the new information increasingly in a Dilemma. For Macedonia, NATO faces in the coming year, recording and the beginning of the EU accession negotiations. The fear of Macedonia: Hungary could both block, if the government Zaev to exercise in the Causa Gruevski too much public pressure. “Greece has blocked the Euro-Atlantic aspirations of Macedonia for two decades,” the Macedonian journalist Saso Ordanoski of the situation. “A Greece can’t have Macedonia, and Orbán knows this.”

The political scientist András Rácz does not believe, however, that Hungary was interested in an escalation. “In the past, Hungary was the Balkan policy in a coherent and pragmatic,” says Rácz. “A Blockade against Macedonia would damage Hungary in the EU and, in the case of NATO, the USA provoke. Therefore, the Orbán government is trying the case, to downplay and to reduce everything to a matter of law.”