“Mothers shrouded in black are the mirror of our soul”.
That’s one of the sentences written on a paper placed at the Olimpija statue in the center of Skopje as an announcement of the November 15 protest march that will be held four days before the start of the trial over the Pulse nightclub fire.
Activists of the Who’s Next? initiative have placed black shawls on the heads of the statues of mothers as well.
In Kochani, Prosecutor General Kocevski and around 10 prosecutors part of the team part of the court process met with families of those killed in the fire, where parents were presented information in relation to the upcoming trial. The meeting was attended also by the Forensic Medicine Institute’s head, Aleksandar Stankov.
Parents said though they had the autopsy findings, some of them had started to have some dilemmas regarding the cause of death of the children. Stankov stated that, if they wanted to, they could come to Skopje to talk to him and doctors that had performed the autopsy procedures.