What happened: An unknown person stoned a bus in motion on the route Avtokomanda-Saraj. The
incident occurred when an unknown person, broke several windows by throwing stones at the “Jutong”
JSP bus in Skopje on “Boris Sarafov” street in Skopje. The incident occurred three and a half hours
after the stoning of four cars after the football match between “Shkendija” and “Mlada Boleslav”.
Date, time and location of the incident: 29 July, around 00:30, on “Boris Sarafov” Street, Gjorche
Petrov, Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic medium Pres 24.
Victim(s) involved: Aside from the material damage, there were no victims of this incident.
Type of the crime(s): Damage to objects of others (Article 243, CC).
Perpetrator(s): Unknown.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity,
nationality or language and the bias indicators are:
1. Assumed difference in ethnicity – the bus transited through an area inhabited by people of a different
ethnicity; the street where the bus was stoned is located in an area inhabited by people of different ethnicity;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident;
3. Pattern of previous incidents – during the same night, only three-and-a-half hours before this
incident, four automobiles had been stoned after the end of the football match between “Shkendija”
and “Mlada Boleslav”.
Status of the case: Under investigation.
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that on 05.08.2016, an authorized person from JSP fi led a report
in PS “Gjorche Petrov” for criminal charges as well as that SIA Skopje took measures and action for
solving the criminal case and establishing the identity of the perpetrator who would face charges.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
