What happened: A taxi driver, after picking up a passenger with disability called two friends and
forced the victim to buy them drinks, to smoke marihuana and beat and robbed him, taking 6500
MKD.
Date, time and location of the incident: December22nd, time unknown, near village of Orizari, Kocani.
Source of information: The media Sitel.
Victim(s) involved: One male with disability.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Art.386 CCRM), Bodily harm (Art.130 CCRM), Robbery (Art.237 CCRM).
Perpetrator(s): Three males.
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is the disability of
the victim, and the bias indicator is:
1. Nature of violence – the incident occurred when the taxi driver noticed that the victim was a person
with disability, and called the two other perpetrators;
Status of the case: Reported to the local authorities, status unknown.
Response of local authorities: To the moment of writing this report, the MOI hasn’t answered upon the Request for public information that the Committee has sent in relation to this incident.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident puts into question the safety of people
with disability in the area.
