What happened: On 02.11.2019, at 11:00 p.m., S.S. (42) from the village of Golema Rechica reported that on
the same day, around 10:30 p.m., his underage son was physically assaulted by a group of underage boys in
Tetovo, on Blagoja Toska Street. The police is working on solving the case.
Date, time and place of incident: 02.11.2019, 10:30 p.m., Tetovo.
Source of information: MOI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: One underage victim.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386 from CC of RNM).
Perpetrator(s): Several unidentified 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 perpetrators are from different ethnicity;
2. Other motives are lacking.
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.
