What happened: On 21.06.2018, at 23:30, at the Sector for Internal Affairs in Skopje, it was reported that
at the intersection between streets “John Kennedy” and “Cvetan Dimov” in JSP bus no. 57, two unknown
persons physically assaulted B.D. (20) from Skopje. Measures are taken to fully clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: On 21.06.2018, at 23:30, at the intersection between streets
“John Kennedy” and “Cvetan Dimov”, in JSP’s bus no. 57.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: one adult male.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): two 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 – attacks of citizens in bus. No 57 have also been registered in the previous
reports
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 “Violence” and have submitted records for charges to PPPO.
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.
