What happened: According to information transmitted to the media, a person from Pakistan was attacked by three other people from Pakistan, who robbed him of 150 EUR. According to his remarks,
he came along with a group of people from Pakistan in the village of Vaksince, where they were
welcomed by three people, also from Pakistan (aged 25-30), who were in charge of welcoming and
sending groups of migrants outside the country. The above-mentioned organizers of all migrant
workers asked for 2,000 EUR per person to take them across the state border to Serbia. Since the
damaged party had no money, one of the organizers attacked him, striking him on the face, after
which he took away the money and left.
Date, time and location of the incident: 22 July, 22:00, village of Vaksince, Kumanovo.
Source of information: Daily bulletin of MoI; Electronic media outlet Kumanovski muabeti.
Victim(s) involved: One person.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386 CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC), Robbery (Article 237, CC)
Perpetrator(s): One person.
Brief decription of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is the migrant
or refugee status, and the bias indicators are:
1. Model of previous incidents – this incident was another from the trend of robberies and assaults on
migrants.
Stauts of the case: No response from the MoI.
Response of the local authorities: By the time of writing of this report, the MoI had not responded
to the MHC request for public information regarding this case.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the safety of migrants
entering and transiting through the country.
