April 30, 2019

A minor physically assaulted by fellow students in a primary school in Skopje

Incident
Incident due to ethnical belonging, citizenship or language

What happened: On 30.04.2019, around 2:00 p.m., at SEI Skopje, Т.Т.(48) from Skopje reported that on
the same day, around 11:20 a.m., her underage son was physically assaulted by several other minors in the
school yard of the Petar Zdravkovski-Penko Primary School on the 2 Makedonska Brigada Blvd. Measures
are being taken to solve the case.

Date, time and place of incident: 30.04.2019, around 11:20 a.m., school yard of the Petar Zdravkovski-Penko
Primary School on 2 Makedonska Brigada Blvd, Skopje.
Source of information: MOI’s daily newsletter, skopjeinfo.mk.
Victim(s) involved: One underage victim.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC of RNM).
Perpetrator(s): Several underage perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is ethnicity, with the bias indicators being:
1. Ethnicity – the victim and the perpetrators belonged to a different ethnic community;
2. Location – the event occurred at a primary school in a city populated by diverse ethnicities,
with thriving intolerance among them and previous registered events of similar type.

Status of case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: The police is working on solving the case.
Impact on the victims and the community: These types of incidents call into question the general safety in
the country and the co-existence among different ethnic groups in society, and reflect particularly poorly
on children’s development and conduct.

Address
2 Македонска Бригада, Skopje region 1000, North Macedonia
Location Name
Petar Zdravkovski-Penko Primary School

Number of victims
1
Number of Perpetrators
3
Status of the case
Perpetrators identified
Type of incident?
Physical attack (assault)
Incident location
Other public location
A minor physically assaulted by fellow students in a primary school in Skopje image

Criminal offences

Against the Public Order
Violence

Grounds

Nationality Ethnic origin