What happened: On 20.05.2018, around 22:00 h, his 14-year-old son was physically assaulted by an
unknown person in the children’s playground on “Doncho Shtipjancheto” Street.
Date, time and location of the incident: 20.05.2018, around 22:00 at the children’s playground on the
“Doncho Shtipjancheto” Street.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: one underage person.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): 1 unknown perpetrator.
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 attackers;
2. Pattern of previous incidents –assaults of lone minors in the street or in the vicinity of a school.
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
perpetrators.
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.
