What happened: Fourteen minors and a teacher from the elementary school Bajram Shabani wеre
attacked and harassed by a group of pupils from the elementary school Brakja Miladinovci, following
a joint project activity.
Date, time and location of the incident: February 20th, 1:30 pm near the elementary school Bajram
Shabani in Kumanovo.
Source of information: The national electronic media Plusinfo.
Victim(s) involved: Fourteen minors and a teacher from the elementary school Bajram Shabani from
Kumanovo.
Type of the crime(s): Violence Art. 386 CCRM, Bodily Harm, Art. 130 CCRM, Participation in a Fight
Art. 132 CCRM.
Perpetrator(s): A group of pupils from the elementary school Brakja Miladinovci in Kumanovo.
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is the ethnic origin,
citizenship or language, and the bias indicators are:
1. Presumed difference between perpetrator and victim on ethnicity – Due to the mixed ethnic composition of
the schools the pupils attend, the ethnicity of the victims may differ from the one of the perpetrators.
2. Comments – The fight was followed by verbal harassment (topic unspecified).
3. Location and timing – The incident followed the presence of a minority group (Macedonian pupils) in
a predominantly Albanian elementary school.
4. Nature of violence – The incident was carried out in public.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of local authorities: After the Committee sent a Request for public information, the Police
responded that they had clarified the case, but didn’t specify anything about the possible motive or
the steps it has undertaken.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This type of incidents brings into question the general
political situation in the country and the cohabitation between the Macedonians, on one side and
the Albanians as the two largest ethnic communities in the country, and additionally influences the
building of a multiethnic tolerant surrounding young people can grow up in.
