What happened: A 17-year-old minor stabbed another 16-year-old minor with a knife in the chest.
The injured was given medical care at the “8-mi Septemvri” General Hospital where he was treated
for a bodily injury.
Date, time and location of the incident: 12 March, around 22:00, at a bus stop on “Partizanski Odredi”
Boulevard.
Source of information: Electronic medium Lokalno.
Victim(s) involved: One minor.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Heavy bodily injury (Article 131, CC), Participation in
a fi ght (Article 132, CC).
Perpetrator(s): One minor
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 – due to the location of the incident which took place at a bus stop
for buses transiting through areas inhabited by people of a different ethnicity, it is possible that the
ethnicity of the perpetrator is different from the ethnicity of the victim;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Filed request for initiation of a misdemeanour procedure
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA Skopje submitted a request for initiation of a misdemeanour
procedure to the Primary Court Skopje 1 Skopje − Misdemeanour Department on 24.03.2016.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
