What happened: On 21.06.2020, at 03:40 a.m., on Gjorche Petrov Street, after receiving a call early in the morning informing that an explosion had occurred and smoke was rising in a bakery, the police investigated the crime place. Initially, the police was suspecting an explosive device due to the damage of the space – the front door was displaced from its frame, the windows shattered with additional damage inside the building. There were no casualties. The vice-president of the political party VMRO-DPMNE, Vlado Misajlovski, in a statement for the media, stated that the bakery was in the ownership of his family.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is political affiliation, with the bias indicators being:
- Target location – the property belonged to the spokesperson of a political party;
- Time – The incident occurred before elections.
Impact on the victims and the community: These types of incidents call into question the general and political situation in the country.
