The peaceful protest that took place in Gostivar Thursday following the double homicide by a border police member was meant to ease tension not just in the city but also the whole country. Unfortunately, after the protest rally ended and most protestors peacefully went away, radical groups of Albanians attacked assets owned by Macedonians and literally demolished the center of Gostivar, Utrinski vesnik reports.

In an unseen rampage, boutiques, coffee shops, a butcher shop, a bakery, a store for home appliances, and a fast food shop, all of them owned by Macedonians, were demolished. The windows of the judiciary building, the local office of the power company EVN and the forest company Sar were also shattered.