“In the state care institution ‘Ranka Milanovik’ it is a mess. I came here in ‘Cicino Selo’ because I had problems with the ones who were in care of this institution. They beat me there and they also tried to take my wife and abuse my daughter who is a minor. The responsible authorities did not respond, they just watched”, says the homeless man Albert Osman for CIVIL Media.

In the debate “Top Topic” on Telma television, on the occasion of the sexual abuse of the 12-year-old girl, representatives of NGO’s pointed out that in “Cicino Selo” there are problems and that there are no appropriate living conditions. The employees of the institution did not allow the team of CIVIL Media to visit the institution, even though the visit was not in the capacity of filming a report on the conditions in which the homeless people live in, but rather to talk with the parent of the raped child.

“You have to have a permission from the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy in order to enter the facility, that is the procedure. You can record from outside the gate”, replied one of the employees.

Osman adds that in “Cicino Selo” it is better for him there, and that it is not true that the homeless have problems with the Albanians who supposedly beat, rape and harass them.

“Cicino Selo is like living in Germany, compared to “Ranka Milanovik”. It is better to live out on the streets than in “Ranka”, because the food there is terrible, not even a dog would eat that food”, adds Osman.

He stressed that in “Ranka” there were no conditions for living or for maintaining personal hygiene.

“Here my children are bathing every day, and there was no order there. I couldn’t take my children to school while we were there, because they would say ‘look at these Gypsies, look what they are doing’, isn’t that rights?”, he says.

Dehran Muratov

Camera, photo and editing: Маја Ivanovska