Macedonia Braces for More Protests After Parliament Riot

After Macedonia's parliament canceled Friday's session due to damage caused by rioters, heavily equipped riot police were deployed in front of the building in anticipation of more protests on Friday afternoon.

On Friday, the Interior Ministry said 102 people had been treated in hospital, including 10 MPs, journalists and police officers. The head of the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, Zoran Zaev, was among the injured, with blood pouring down his face.

Media reported that Zijadin Sela, the MP who appeared to be among those worst injured during the storming of the parliament, was out of danger.

Sela, leader of the opposition ethnic Albanian DPA - Movement for Reforms, sustained head concussion and fractures and is still recuperating in hospital.

Police accused of failing to do their job:

Provisional Interior Minister Agim Nuhiu on Friday accused the police of failing to do their job and prevent the violence in parliament.

He offered his resignation, as he said out of moral reasons, for not succeeding in four months in office in eliminating political influence in the police.

Nuhiu, who comes from the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, a party that is part of the new parliamentary majority, said he suspected that some parts of the police had deliberately stayed passive for a long time in order to let the violent crowd enter the parliament.

He named Mitko Cavkov, head of the Public Safety Bureau, which controls the uniformed police, for not doing his duty. Cafkov comes from the former ruling VMRO DPMNE party whose supporters stormed the parliament.

Nuhiu said that despite being head of the operational HQ in charge of dealing with potential violence,...