What happened: A twenty one year old youth is fighting for his life in the Skopje clinics after yesterday
afternoon, at 17:20 h he was beaten up by unknown persons in the residential area of Avtokomanda. Yesterday
and in the course of the night the boy was unconscious. According to the initial information by MoI, he was
beaten up by three, for the time being, unknown persons. The unknown person got off a Mercedes bends car,
beat the boy who was moving down the Aleksandar Makedonski Blvd. in the vicinity of the bus stop near the
head offices of Alkaloid and Skopska Pivara. On 09.07.2018, the injured succumbed to the injuries and passed
away.
Date, time and location of the incident: 29.06.2018 17:30, at the bust top near Alkaloid, in Avtokomanda
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter, Nova Makedonija daily
Victim(s) involved: one adult male (21).
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Murder in a cruel way (Article 123 p. 2 i. 1, CC).
Perpetrator(s): three unknown perpetrators
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 attackers are of a different ethnicity;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – Assaults of members of supporter groups; In this specific case the attacked
youth was a member of Komiti, and the attackers were members of Shverceri.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information states that this incident
had first been registered as “Violence” and that two of the three perpetrators had been immediately put into
custody, and that they were looking for the third one. After the case was submitted to PPO and after the
autopsy of the body and the collecting of additional evidence was conducted, this case was re-qualified as
“Murder in a cruel way”.
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.
