Police Officers: Party and Zaev

police officers: The official, who did not provide further details, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, according to CTV. Police said 102 people were injured during the Thursday night violence inside and outside parliament that followed the election of a new parliament speaker. An official in the Social Democrat party told The Associated Press that party leader Zoran Zaev would not be attending the talks. Zaev was among the victims, as were the head of a small ethnic Albanian opposition party and 22 police officers. Zaev accused former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and President Gjorge Ivanov of provoking the violence, and said they were prepared to sacrifice the state interest for their own personal interests. Speaking at a news conference in the capital of Skopje, Zaev described the attack on him, which left him with blood pouring down his face from a cut in his forehead, as attempted murder. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.