By Ivon Velichkovski
From today, we are divided:On one side are you — those who destroyed the system for money and kill us every day in nightclubs, on the streets, in buses, and hospitals.
On the other side are we — the majority that no longer wants a country of obituaries written because of your greed.
There’s no turning back from this division.
You are killing our children in the name of corruption.
We may forgive you for our ruined youth — but not for their lives.
Their blood is on your hands, and you won’t hide the evidence to save your businesses and seats of power. All of you who have (ever) been in power.
You cannot compensate for the mass murders in the Tetovo Modular Hospital, “Durmo Tours,” and now in Kočani to grant each other amnesty.
Gangsters are your companions — “tough guys” in venues where the “jet set” drinks and snorts in the company of police chiefs and political officials while police officers guard your luxury cars.
You are killing us with deliberate negligence and disregard for laws, standards, and procedures. For money.
“I know a guy,” “ours is at the inspection,” “I’ll call the mayor,” “I know the minister,” “it’s been arranged with the boss”… By this morning, such words have already killed about sixty young people.
If even one piece of evidence “disappears” — you are hiding it: the Ministry of Interior, the Crime Police, the Prosecutor’s Office.
Sorry, but silence is not an option.
Anyone “moralizing” now that it’s not the time to speak up only wants to relativize the death of dozens of young lives.
For personal or party gain.
This nightclub has been “operating” for years. It was a “ticking time bomb,” and it’s just one of hundreds of such places where our children hang out.
Now you’ll conduct “inspections”?
Start with the parties.
Check which of your party officials “looked the other way” while permits were being issued for these places. Or how they enabled them to “legally” operate due to “administrative silence.”
There will be no silence until all questions are answered:
• Whose nightclub is it — the building and the company?
• Who organized the event?
• How, when, and by whom was a building with one exit and bars on the windows allowed to operate as a nightclub?
• How are they connected to those who issued the operating permit?
• What are the business and political ties between them? And for how long?
• Who last inspected the fire safety measures and emergency exit accessibility?
• Was the concert reported to the authorities?
For registered concerts, fire and medical teams are deployed as a precaution. If it wasn’t reported — why didn’t the police shut it down?
• Were there more people in the venue than the permitted maximum? The number of tickets sold must be accounted for.
• Who was in charge of security at the event? Who let minors into the nightclub at 3 AM?
• Who organized the pyrotechnics?
• Were licensed companies involved? Who issued those licenses? Accountability for everyone — not just financial penalties.
If the venue didn’t have a valid permit — who tolerated its operation, on whose order or for whose benefit?
Was it their own initiative or “orders from above”?
And is this the only case?
This is not a tragedy caused by “force majeure.”
This is mass murder due to human factors — with the deliberate neglect of duties and procedures by the organizer, the performers, and the institutions.
When they claim someone before them is responsible — they lie:
Every local and government authority that allowed this nightclub to operate didn’t care about what was happening — neither in Kočani nor in any other town in North Macedonia.
The cost of this neglect and corruption today was paid with the lives of dozens of young people who just wanted to have fun.
Let’s avenge these victims and all previous ones of the party mafia allied with the criminal underground — by fighting against their System of no system.
Otherwise, none of them will ever be held accountable, as has been the case for the past 35 years.
Your hands are bloody! All of you who are and were in power.
And you caused Kočani’s “Pulse,” Tetovo’s “Modular,” “Durmo Tours”… all the way back to “Avioimpex” and Skopje’s “Silex” nightclub.
