By Skopjediem
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There had been reports filed to police against Ilija Stefanovski, who killed Rosica Koceva and her father in Veles and then committed suicide on September 15, as early as 2013.
The Helsinki Committee’s confirmed for Telma that it has information on four other girls that reported following 2013 to police that he continued, after the end of the relationship, to harass, follow and call them, as well as that he wrote offensive messages about them or their closed ones on public surfaces.
For Sloboden Pecat, one of the girls, has stated that they were in an 18-month relationship in the 2013-2014 period, explaining that she wasn’t able to get rid of him and that he threatened he would kill himself if she didn’t become his girlfriend again.
On one occasion, he took her phone and sent texts in her name, while he even threatened that he would kill his sister.
“I reported those death threats to the police. They contacted him and he gave me back my phone. In those several hours, he presented himself as if he were me and would send emails to destroy my professional development”, the girl told the medium.
Attorney Janaki Mitrovski, regarding the issue of femicides in the country, says there are three key things: the need for legal changes to detain perpetrators due to the danger of them repeating the act, the problem of a lack of judges and assisting staff, which results in court processes being stalled, and, especially, partisanship of institutions, which has reduced accountability and oversight.
