Ohrid Commemorates Murdered Serbian Tourist

The municipality of Ohrid held an extraordinary session on August 30 dedicated to security in the city and Friday'stragic death of 34-year-old Dejan Novakovic.

Delegates asked the police to provide them with information about the killing as well as dozens of other incidents reported to have happened in the town in recent months including mass brawls, gunfights and burglaries.

The legislators commemorated the deceased tourist by holding a one-minute silence and later laid flowers in a chapel at the town cemetery where they joined his family.

Local residents and tourists have continued to light candles and lay flowers at the site of the killing in downtown Ohrid.

Nenad Novakovic, the victim's younger brother, told local media: "I think that this is a serious, a very brutal murder.

"They killed him in the worst possible way. I hope that the justice will be served and that your court and the authorities will see it done without incidents between Macedonia and Serbia.

"I only regret that at the moment of my brother’s death there were no police to protect him when he shouted for help.”

Novkovic was beaten to death after being caught when he tried to flee a gang outside a local night club.

According to a forensic report, Novkovic's heart stopped as a result of a severe blow to the chest.

On Sunday, an investigative judge in Macedonia ordered the group of seven men suspected of the killing to be detained for 30 days.

Under heavy police presence eyewitnesses were called in to Ohrid to identify them.

The detained are residents of Ohrid. If found guilty they face from ten years to life in prison.

The authorities are searching for another man, a Serbian citizen who has also been charged in relation to the case.