Macedonia's justice minister has resigned following public outcry over the case of a 4-year-old boy killed nearly two years ago, after a prosecutor reduced the charges against the driver of the car that hit the child. Bilen Saliji, a minister from the government's junior coalition partner, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, said late Tuesday he was resigning due to deteriorating public trust in the judiciary. The prosecutor reduced the charges against the suspect in the case earlier this month from "deliberate murder" to "serious traffic offense." The murder charge carries a maximum life sentence, while the traffic offense charge carries a potential sentence of four to 20 years. On Wednesday, more than 1,000 people, including some of the boy's relatives, gathered outside the government building to protest the reduced charges.

Source: ABC News March 21, 2018 10:02 UTC