What happened: Last night around 19:00h, four unknown underage persons attached a 12-year-old boy on
“Makedonski vojski” Street in Skopje. According to MoI, the case was reported at the Police Precinct Gjorche
Petrov last night at 21:40h, by A.T. (42), the mother of the assaulted boy. The police is taking measures to fully
clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 01 May, 21:40, “Makedonski vojski” Street, in Skopje.
Source of information: Nova Makedonija daily
Victim(s) involved: one minor.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): 4 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 – the victim is a minor and of a different ethnicity than the perpetrators;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – assaults of lone minors in the streets or in the vicinity of a school.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information states that this incident
was registered as a violation of the public order and peace in their records and that they are taking measures
to identify the perpetrators.
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.
