What happened: On 30.04.2019, at 10:00 a.m., at SEI Tetovo, A.Gj. (39) from Tetovo reported that on the
same day, around 09:00 a.m., in front of the Goce Delcev Primary School, his underage son was physically
assaulted by three other underage individuals. The police are working on solving the case.
Date, time and place of incident: 30.04.2019, around 09:00 a.m., in front of the Goce Delcev Primary
School, Tetovo.
Source of information: MOI’s daily newsletter, press24.mk.
Victim(s) involved: One underage victim.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC of RNM).
Perpetrator(s): Three underage perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is ethnicity, with the bias
indicators being:
1. Ethnicity – the victim and the perpetrators belonged to a different ethnic community;
2. Location – the event occurred at a primary school in a city populated by diverse ethnicities,
with thriving intolerance among them and previous registered events of similar type.
Status of case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: The police is working on solving the case.
Impact on the victims and the community: These types of incidents call into question the general safety in
the country and the co-existence among different ethnic groups in society, and reflect particularly poorly
on children’s development and conduct.
