(ANSA-AFP) – SKOPJE, JUN 25 – A court in North Macedonia
sentenced four people, including a far-right politician, to life
in prison Wednesday for an extortion plot that ended in the
murder of a teenage girl and a 74-year-old man. The Basic Court
in the capital, Skopje, convicted Ljupco Palevski, along with
three others, over the abduction and double murder in November
2023. “Each of the defendants is individually sentenced to a
single sentence of life imprisonment,” Judge Ivica Stefanovski
told the court. The four, plotting to extort money from the
girl’s family, killed the man for his car before kidnapping the
girl and shooting her dead in a grisly killing that shocked the
Balkan nation. Palevski’s lawyer, Jovica Strasevski, told the
media he would appeal the conviction. (ANSA-AFP).
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