What happened: At 11 h last night, at the Police Department Mavrovo, S.B. (74) reported that in the
residential area Mavrovi Anovi two of the bronze statues of the national heroes Chede Filipovski and Zlate
Malakoski had been pulled down from their stands by means of physical force. Measures are taken to fully
clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 21 June, in the evening hours, Mavrovi Anovi.
Source of information: Nova Makedonija daily, MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: none
Type of crime(s): Damaging objects of others (Article 243, CC),
Perpetrator(s): unknown perpetrator(s).
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are:
1. Pattern of previous incidents – Other incidents of destroying and desecrating monuments from WWII
and other historical objects of importance to the Macedonian ethnic community had been previously
registered as well.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information stated that they had
registered this incident as the crime “Damaging objects of others” under Article 243 of CC and submitted
criminal charges against an unknown perpetrator to PPPO.
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.
