On „Mitropolit Teodosij Gologanov" Boulevard, near the Catholic Church in Skopje, a landslide occurred from a construction site. The earth fell onto the sidewalk and the street, damaging a parked vehicle. The excavator working on the site was buried - it is a real miracle that the operator managed to get out before being covered with earth.

Centar Municipality, if its statements are to be read, „immediately" went out to the field. Inspection services and the Interior Ministry together documented damage to the roadway, the sidewalks, the sewage network, and the street lighting. The investor was fined „for failing to honour obligations". The size of the fine - as is the custom - is not public.

The Skopje resident whose vehicle was damaged said: „The pavement and the road dropped along the entire length of the construction lot. There was material damage, but luckily no pedestrian was injured." And she added something far more important: „A serious investigation is needed into whether the surrounding buildings are safe - so that we don't end up with damage larger than today's."

That is the question Macedonian readers should be writing to their municipalities. When an investor digs so deep it triggers a landslide, it means either the rules for excavation depth were not respected, or the soil was not analysed before work began, or both. Surrounding buildings, especially older ones with shallow foundations, can be structurally compromised without visible signs for months.

The civic group „Defence of Bunjakovac" published the first information on social media, highlighting that the work was being carried out on a public holiday - when inspection services often do not work, and when investors use those non-working days for more aggressive earthwork without oversight.

The question that remains unanswered: where was the permit for this depth of excavation? Who approved the geomechanical analysis? And when the investor „remediates the damage" - does that mean just restoring the sidewalk, or actually analysing the foundations of the surrounding buildings? Because one is cosmetic, the other is the safety of the people living there.