On Tuesday, dismissed Krsto Petkov Misirkov Secondary School Head-teacher Maja Lozanovska in Demir Hisar, and her attorney, Zarko Stevanoski, went to the police for an informative conversation, but they were asked who had summoned them.
As Stevanoski explained, though, during Friday’s search of Lozanovska’s home, the then-Department Chief had told them to come on Tuesday, when they did so, officers told them the case should be registered as one in which they’d gone to the station on their own.
However, Stevanoski rejected that, after which they were summoned for a conversation on Wednesday (13 August). Police also went to the School, following Stevanoski’s report that there’d been a breaking and entering at the Head-teacher’s office in an attempt to find stamps.
Lozanovska’s successor was there too. Police asked Lozanovska and Stevanoski to ID themselves even though, according to the Central Registry, Lozanovska is still the Head-teacher. The attorney and his client have filed a criminal charge, too, saying though Lozanovska hasn’t received a dismissal decision, her successor has started work.
During Friday’s search, Robert Martinoski, then-Chief of the Demir Hisar Department of Internal Affairs, according to police, overstepped authority by trying to deprive Lozanovska of liberty even though he only had a search order.
The Ministry said on Sunday Martinoski would be dismissed and face disciplinary proceedings for unprofessional and unethical conduct. Previously, the Mayor of Demir Hisar, Nikola Najdovski, had dismissed Lozanovska due to, according to the Education Inspectorate’s decision, irregularities in her work.
However, Lozanovska and her attorney have said it’s about partisan pressure, while the reason for the search for the stamps was for them to be used to appoint her successor and employ professors before the scheduling of the local elections.