What happened: Students from the secondary school GUC “Zdravko Cvetkoski” physically attacked
two minors from the same school. The minors were injured and taken to “8 September” General
Hospital for medical care.
Date, time and location of the incident: 14 October, at 17:45, GUC “Zdravko Cvetkovski”, Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic medium TV21mk.
Victim(s) involved: Two minors.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC)
Perpetrator(s): A group of 3 students at GUC “Zdravko Cvetkovski”.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In the incident, the bias motive is ethnicity,
nationality or language and the bias indicators are:
1. Assumed difference in ethnicity – due to the different ethnicities of students attending the
aforementioned school, it is possible that the members of the two groups were of different ethnicity;
2. Nature of violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Filed criminal charges against three persons.
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA Skopje fi led criminal charges against three persons with
the competent Public Prosecutor’s Offi ce.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
