A day after the tragedy in the settlement of Taftalidje, located in Karposh, when 31-year-old Ivana Ivanovska and her six-year-old daughter, Katja, died after having fallen from a high-rise, the now-widower, Stojanche Ivanovski was arrested.
He was also issued a 48-hour detention measure on suspicion of instigation to suicide and assistance in suicide, bodily injury, and threatening the safety. As the Interior Ministry said, there were 10 criminal charges against him concerning violent crime, illicit drug trafficking, and property delicts.
In the two years prior to the tragedy, he had been reported also for domestic violence, but in all cases, Ivana decided to withdraw from further proceedings.
Two hours before the death of Ivana and Katja, on Monday, there was an argument between the former and Stojanche. Police intervened following a report, but Ivana denied there had been domestic violence. She said there’d been a misunderstanding and, again, decided against initiating proceedings and to resolve marital relations through divorce via institutional channels.
According to the initial information from the Prosecutor’s Office, on Monday, Ivana and her daughter were alone in the apartment, locked from the inside. Interrogations are underway. The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy is conducting extraordinary insight.