What happened: On 18.03.2018, at 21:20, at the Sector for Internal Affairs in Skopje it was reported that on
the same day, around 18:30 in the village of Petrovec – Skopje region, in the “Strasho Pindzur” barracks, while
doing his assignments as a guard of the helicopter department a professional soldier noticed three people who
came with a passenger vehicle. After they were warned to step away from the barrack fence as it is a military
object, the perpetrators started throwing stones at him, and then they fled the time scene. S.M. was provided
with medical help in the General City Hospital “8th September” and then sent home to rest. Measures are taken
to fully clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 18.03.2018, at 21:20, in the village of Petrovec – Skopje region, in the
“Strasho Pindzur” barracks.
Source of information: daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: one professional soldier
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC)
Perpetrator(s): three unknown perpetrator(s).
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the bias
indicators are:
1. Location – The incident took place at a locaitgon where the surrounding villages are populated by people
of Albanian ethnicity.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information states that the police officers
interviewed and talked to several summoned people and that they were taking measures and activities to fully
clarify 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.
