What happened: A nineteen-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest and abdomen with a sharp object
while getting off the city bus no. 19 at the bus station at “Treska” in Skopje. The boy, along with two
of his friends, got off the bus, after which four other unknown persons got off the same bus and
stabbed him in the chest and abdomen. The Emergency Center found that the boy had suffered a
heavy bodily injury (punctured pleural cavity).
Date, time and location of the incident: 1 February, around 21:00, bus station at “Treska” in Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic medium “Makfax”.
Victim(s) involved: One nineteen-year-old person.
Type of the crime(s): Heavy bodily injury (Article 131, CC), Violence (Article 386, CC), Participation in
a fi ght (Article 132, CC).
Perpetrator(s): A group of 4 unknown perpetrators
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 – shortly before the incident, the perpetrators and the victim were in
the bus no. 19 which transits through an area inhabited by people of a different ethnicity;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
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 SIA Skopje submitted a written report to the Public
Prosecutor’s Offi ce on 04.02.2016.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
