Justice came half a year late, but it came. Sait Saitov (19) from Skopje, who in January ran over a 79-year-old woman in Kapištec and immediately fled the country, has finally been extradited from Serbia and brought back home. The Interior Ministry announced he has been remanded in custody and placed in the „Skopje" prison for further proceedings.

The reminder of what happened is harsh. On January 9, 2026, Saitov, driving a Volkswagen Passat - without a driver's license - struck Ljuba Jakovleska, who later died of her injuries. The same day he left the country, and two other people - a man and a woman - are charged with helping him flee across the Tabanovce border crossing into Serbia.

An international warrant had been issued for him for offences against traffic safety and for failing to assist an injured person. He now also faces charges of endangering public traffic. In short - he did everything that could make an escape even worse: he drove without a license, struck someone, didn't help, and fled across the border with someone else's help.

The question that remains isn't whether he'll face justice - that's now certain - but how long a return like this takes and why the escape was possible in the first place. When someone can cross Tabanovce hours after a fatal hit-and-run, the problem isn't just one 19-year-old, but also who was guarding the border that day. Justice that arrives after six months is still justice; but for Ljuba's family, those six months don't come back.