Two Macedonian citizens, connected to the Skopje organised crime group "Belanoca", have been arrested in the Albanian city of Durres - and one of them is, according to the police, suspected of something that shook the country: the killing of an ARM officer in Skopje's Batinci.

Musa Djavit and Senafi Nuredini were caught on 10 July in the international police operation "Fjuri", carried out on information obtained from the Macedonian police. Interpol warrants had been issued for them over suspicion of several serious crimes. One is linked to the killing of the ARM officer, the other to a murder in Butel and an attack in Studenichani.

According to the allegations, the officer was shot before the eyes of his daughter - a detail that makes this news more than an ordinary police action. Behind every arrest like this stands a family that has waited years for an answer, and a question that rarely gets a voice: how did it come to pass that suspects in such crimes freely cross the border before being caught.

An arrest abroad, through Interpol, is a success for the police - but also a reminder that organised crime long ago stopped recognising borders. The question that remains isn't just who caught them, but how long the system allowed them to stay out of reach. For the victims' families, justice that comes late is justice that hurts twice over.