What happened: On 01.07.2018, at 18:15h at the Police Precinct Centar I.S. (47) reported that on that same
day, on “Luj Paster” Street, at 00:30 his 17-year-old son had been physically assaulted by a group of persons.
Measures are taken to fully clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 01.07.2018 at 18:15 h, on “Luj Paster” Street in Skopje.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: one underage minor.
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 – the victim is a minor and of a different ethnicity than the perpetrators;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – assaults of underage persons on the street, at bus stops or in the vicinity of
a school.
Status of the case: Unknown
Response of the local authorities: By the time this report was closed, there was still no response from MoI.
(The response arrived in January, it was recorded as a physical assault, and they are working to solve the 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.
