What happened: On 27.11.2018, at 13:30 h, Sh.Sh (43) from Skopje, reported that on the same day, around
12:00, on “John Kennedy” Street, in the schoolyard of the secondary school (“Cvetan Dimov”), her 16-year old
son was physically assaulted by his peer. Measures are taken to fully solve the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 27.11.2018, around 12:00 h, on “John Kennedy” Street, in the in
the schoolyard of the secondary school (“Cvetan Dimov”).
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: one minor 16-year-old minor.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): one minor perpetrator.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are:
1. Difference in ethnicity – the victim and the attacker are of a different ethnicity;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – assaults of minors in this part of the city have been previously registered
as well
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: There has been no response yet to the request for public information
submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking whether there are indicators confirming hate crime in
this case.
Impact on the victims and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic co-existence of
the two major ethnic communities in the country.
