What happened: On 17.06.2019, at 10:00 a.m., at the Police Station Gazi Baba, S.R. (74) from Skopje reported
that sometime between 15.06. and 16.06.2019, a grave stone in the Kamnik graveyards was desecrated. The
police is working on solving the case.
Date, time and place of incident: Between 15 to 16.06.2019, Kamnik graveyards.
Source of information: MOI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: No victims.
Type of crime(s): Damage to Objects of Others (Article 243, CC of RNM).
Perpetrator(s): Unidentified perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is ethnicity, with the bias
indicators being:
1. Ethnicity – the victim and attackers belonged to a different ethnic community;
2. Location – the event occurred at a location visited by diverse ethnic population;
3. Pattern of previous incidents – similar incidents of desecrated gravestones in Christian orthodox
graveyards have been previously registered in this part of the city.
Status of case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: Measures are being taken to completely solve the case.
Impact on the victims and the community: These types of incidents call into question the general safety in
the country and the co-existence among different ethnic groups in society.
