What happened: A 13-year-old minor, a member of the Macedonian community, was beaten up by 7
students, members of the Albanian community from a different school, while he was waiting for the
bus at a bus stop on his way from school to home. The minor was punched and beaten, after which he
lost consciousness and ended up with bodily injuries. The minor was harassed by one of the attackers
even the day before the incident.
Date, time and location of the incident: 22 March, around 10 o’clock, bus stop near “Toli Zordumis”
School in Kumanovo.
Source of information: Television program Telma.
Victim(s) involved: One minor.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): A group of 7 minor Albanians.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity,
nationality or language and the bias indicators are:
1. Difference in ethnicity – a different ethnicity of students attending the aforementioned school;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Filed request for initiation of a misdemeanor procedure
Response of Local Authorities: In the response to a request for public information submitted by
Committee to the MOI regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA Kumanovo fi led a Request for
initiation of a misdemeanor procedure to the Primary Court in Kumanovo, Juvenile Judge.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
