What happened: A group of fans of FC “Budukjnost” was attacked by a group of fans of FC “Vardar”
while they were sitting in one of the cafés on “Kej 13 November” in Skopje. The mass fi ght took place in
GTC Skopje where a few store windows were broken. Fans hit each other with glass bottles, metal, and
other objects, after which the “Varvari” headed towards the “Holiday Inn” Hotel. In the incident, one of
the fans from Skopje was more seriously injured, while two Montenegrin fans were less severely injured.
Date, time and location of the incident: 21 February, at 17:15, on “Kej 13 Noemvri” Street and GTC
Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic medium Sport365 and daily newspaper “Dnevnik”
Victim(s) involved: 3 persons, one of whom was a more severely injured fan from Skopje, while less
severely injured were two fans from Montenegro
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Participation in a fi ght (Article 132, CC), Heavy bodily
injury (Article 131, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): An unknown number of fans of FC “Budkjnost” and FC “Vardar”.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident which happened at a sporting
event, the bias motive is ethnicity, nationality or language and bias indicators are:
1. Pattern of previous incidents – this incident was preceded by another one from the day before when
fans of FC “Budukjnost” participated in a fi ght with fans of FC “Shkendija”;
2. Nature of violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Unknown (According to media reports, 23 fans of FC “Budukjnost” were detained
and fi ned).
Response of Local Authorities: By the time of the writing of this report, MOI had not responded to
the Committee’s request for public information regarding this incident.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: These types of incidents call into question the safety
in the country in general, the coexistence of different ethnic groups in the society and the safety of
people attending or near sports matches.
