SKOPJE: A Macedonian court has convicted seven men of attempting to murder a lawmaker during a mob invasion of parliament at the height of the country's political crisis last year.
The
Skopje court on Thursday imposed sentences from 10 to 13{ years in prison on the defendants.
Zijadin Sela, leader of the
small Alliance of Albanians party, was severely beaten by protesters during the April 2017 invasion. He was hospitalized unconscious for 10 days and suffered brain damage and memory loss.
The riot, in which some 100 people were injured, came amid high tension between the formerly dominant conservative party and current
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's left-led coalition following inconclusive parliamentary elections.
Parliament had been meeting to elect an ethnic Albanian speaker, as a first step for Zaev's coalition to form a government.