SKOPJE, North Macedonia: Hundreds of Roma protested against police brutality in North Macedonia’s second-largest city Saturday.
Chanting No justice, no peace and Justice for the Roma, the protesters marched peacefully in downtown Bitola to the southern citys main police station. A group of children gave flowers to officers who cordoned off the building.
The protest came after the countrys Avaja nongovernmental organization posted a video on social media allegedly showing a police officer brutally beating and kicking a Roma man in Bitola a week ago.
This is a gesture of reconciliation and we want no more such events to happen. We want a better future, said Ramzi Medik, an activist from the NGO Bairska Svetlina, or Bairs Light.
North Macedonias interior minister earlier said two police officers were suspended over the…