"Why didn't this savage arrive with his hammer on September 20, when we were there with the troops? These are mice hiding in the dark and looking at the past who drag Macedonia's society downwards."

Ivo Antonov, the head of the Social Policy directorate with Bulgaria's Defense Ministry, comments on the actions of Macedonian journalist Milenko Nedelkovski, who smashed a Bulgarian memorial plaque into pieces on Thursday, September 22.

A commemorative ceremony on Kaimakchalan peak, the same one where the plaque had been placed, took place on September 20, two days before the incident, with the Armed Forces' Chief of Defese Konstantin Popov and a parliamentary delegation taking part.