28 years ago, on October 3, the first president of the Republic of Macedonia Kira Gligorov was assassinated, who survived with serious head injuries.
Neither the perpetrators nor those who ordered the assassination are known yet.
The investigation established that the assassination was well prepared and organized and that it was only a lucky circumstance that Gligorov survived the assassination.
The attack was carried out with a "car bomb" on October 3, 1995 at 9.50:XNUMX a.m. in Makedonija Street in front of the Bristol Hotel in Skopje, when Gligorov was traveling from his residence to his workplace in Sobranje in an official vehicle.
20 kilograms of explosives were hidden in his car, which were activated by remote control when the vehicle with Gligorov was moving towards the parliament building.
Before the explosion, the president's official vehicle slowed down in Makedonija Street, one of the city's central streets.
In the assassination of Gligorov, his driver Aleksandar Spirovski was killed, and his bodyguard Ilčo Teovski was injured.
Bystander Hristo Hristomanov also died as a result of his injuries, and Klime Korobar and Jovan Atanasovski were also injured.
In the investigation, 30.850 vehicles were searched and more than 15.000 objects were examined, more than 188.000 people were identified, of which 19.000 were searched.
Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs held several informative interviews with people it considered to be possible perpetrators of the assassination, but they were all released after questioning.
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