What happened: Three seventeen y/o boys attacked 20 y/o male on a bus station in Chair without
any reason, after the victim disembarked a public transportation bus No. 57. After the attack, the
perpetrators took the victim’s mobile telephone.
Date, time and location of the incident: March 20th, at the bus station in the vicinity of Trade centre
Chairchanka in Skopje.
Source of information: The electronic media plusinfo.mk.
Victim(s) involved: One 20 y/o male with unknown ethnic origin.
Type of the crime(s): Bodily harm, Art. 130 CCRM, Violence Art. 386 CCRM, Participation in a fight Art.
132 CCRM, Robbery Art. 237 CCRM.
Perpetrator(s): Three minor males with unknown ethnic origin.
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: The bias motive in this incident is ethnic origin,
citizenship or language, and the bias indicators in this incident are:
1. Presumed difference between perpetrator and victim on ethnicity – due to the different predominant ethnic
composition of the population in the community Radishani (the end destination of the line No. 57) and
in the municipality of Chair, the ethnicity of the victim may differ from the one of the perpetrators.
2. Nature of violence – The incident was carried out in public.
3. Lac of other motives.
Status of the case: Criminal charges pressed.
Response of local authorities: The Ministry of Interior stated via Answer upon a Request for
information of public character sent by the Committee that it has filed criminal charges against two
of the perpetrators for the act of Violence. However, there has been no answer as to the fact that
indicates to the possible motive of the crime.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This type of incidents brings into question the general
security situation in the country and the cohabitation between the Macedonians, on one side and
the Albanians as the two largest ethnic communities in the society.
