Women attacked at Macedonian border checkpoint

Luljeta and Violeta Telalli, mother and daughter, have been reported by the Macedonian Police for attacking their personnel.

The Albanian women told on the “Drini” portal from Struga that their problems with the police started after the border checkpoint received an order to not allow them in Macedonia.

“I took the passport from their hands and I told him that we would both return. At this moment the police took us. My daughter was very scared. She tried to call her father, but the police removed her phone from her hand. When she tried to hold the phone, the policewoman attacked her. Two other officers dragged my daughter through the corridor and took her inside a dark room”, Luljeta Telalli says.

The two Albanian citizens were traveling to the Dutch Embassy in Skopje. They are currently staying in a private house in Struga, because their passports have been taken by the Macedonian Police and cannot turn back to Albania.

Mrs.Luljeta and Violeta Telalli appeal the Albanian embassy in Skopje, and say they have a certification from a doctor for the violence used against them.

“They took our passports and told us to stay here and appear everyday at the police. We went to the police, but they didn’t let us in and told us that we were two minutes late. We have been staying here without a shelter, without food, without medical care”, Luljeta Telalli says.

The version of the police says that the two Albanian women have confronted the police after discovering that they couldn’t enter Macedonia, because they didn’t have enough money with them and they didn’t announce the reason of their entrance.

The police says that the woman has tried to take the passport by pushing down the computer equipment and then offended and attacked the police officers.

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