What happened: On 14.11.2018, at 20:00, at SIA Skopje, M.J. (19) and J.S. (19), both from Kavadarci,
reported that they had been attacked by several people on PTC’s bus no. 55. Measure are taken to solve the
case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 14.11.2018, PTC, bus no. 55
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: 2 victims
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC)
Perpetrator(s): several unknown perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are:
1. Difference in ethnicity – in this part of the city the population is of mixed ethnicity, and also, the buses
that stop at the bus stop connect residential areas with mixed ethnic structure. In this specific case, the
victims were of Macedonian ethnicity, from Kavadarci (a town with ethnic Macedonian population) and
most of the people who use bus no. 55 are of Albanian ethnicity;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – conflict situations and clashes between young people of different
ethnicity on buses or at bus stops.
3. Location – 55 the incident took place on bus route no. 55
Status of the case: unknown.
Response of the local authorities: By the time of writing of this report, there was no response to the
request submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking whether there are indicators verifying hate crime
in this case.
Impact on the victims and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic co-existence of
the two major ethnic communities in the country.
