What happened: On 09.10.2018, at 11:08, at the Sector for Internal Affairs Skopje, it was reported that
at the bus stop near ETUC “Mihajlo Pupin”, on “Blagoja Stefkovski” Street, a fight between several persons
occurred. Police officers went to the scene, and found that a group of five to six students from the school
physically assaulted N.S. (18) from Skopje, who was also a student in the same school. One of the attackers
was found at the scene. A 16-year-old minor from Skopje is in question. Measures are taken to fully solve the
case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 09.10.2018, around 11:08 h, at the bus stop near ETUC “Mihajlo
Pupin” Madzari, “Blagoja Stefkovski” Street.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: one 18-year-old person
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC)
Perpetrator(s): more than 5 unknown perpetrators, one 16-year-old perpetrator found at the scene.
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 – this school is attended by students of different ethnicities and bus lines
connecting residential areas with mixed ethnic structure stop at the bus stop;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – conflicts situations and clashes between young people of different
ethnicity
3. Location – the incident took place at the bus stop in front of the secondary school where bus lines no. 65, 55,
45 stop.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: To the request submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking
whether there are indicators confirming hate crime in this case, we got an response in January 2019, stating
that the case has been registered as a violation under LVPOP (Law on Violations against the Public Order and
Peace).
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.
