What happened: On 02.06.2018, sometime after midnight, in PTC’s bus no. 57, a young man aged 21 was
physically assaulted by several persons. After the other passengers started shouting out loud, the attackers got
off the bus and escaped.
Date, time and location of the incident: 02 June, after midnight, “Cvetan Dimov” Street, bus no. 57, in Skopje.
Source of information: electronic media outlet судство.мк.
Victim(s) involved: one male.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): a group of 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 and the attackers are of a different ethnicity;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – assaults on buses transiting through the region where there population of
mixed ethnicity lives.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information states that they have
registered this incident as a violation of the public order and peace and are taking measures to identify the
perpetrator(s).
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.
