A Skopje resident (30) is under investigation by the Skopje Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) for spreading national discrimination and spreading hatred. The PPO is acting on a criminal charge filed by the Sector for Combating Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalism in the Public Security Bureau of the Ministry of Interior for spreading racist and xenophobic material through a computer system under Article 394-d of the Criminal Code
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The suspect is Viktor Stoyanov, a Bulgarian national, controversial president of the Bulgarian Foundation “Macedonia”, for whom the Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a criminal charge for committing a crime spreading racist and xenophobic material through a computer system provided for and punishable under Article 394-d, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Macedonia.
Stoyanov is well known to the Macedonian public for a series of anti-Macedonian posts and provocations in which he denies the existence of a Macedonian nation, campaigns offering 300 euros to change one’s last name to ov/ev, donations of Bulgarian flags, satellite television with Bulgarian channels, and spreading propaganda and inciting tensions through the Bulgarian media-propaganda network of portals and podcasts such as vestimak.mk, vestimk.mk, 24mk.mk, and Pochetna presmek. Through his foundation “Macedonia”, a special website www.suportbginmk.eu has also been registered, on which cases of “repressed” Bulgarians from Macedonia are published and complaints are filed to the institutions of the EU and the Council of Europe.
Viktor Stoyanov is linked to the pro-Russian political party from Bulgaria “Renaissance”, has close ties and is an ideological supporter and close to Blagovest Asenov, leader of the ultranationalist group National Resistance from Bulgaria, which, along with the Bulgarian National Alliance, is the organizer and supporter of the Lukov March.
