What happened: On 19.10.2018, around 20:50 h, at the Sector for Internal Affairs Skopje, it was reported
that at the bus stop in front of Chucher Sandevo, on PTC’s bus no. 81 which transits from Skopje to Dolno
Blace, several people entered the bus carrying hard objects and attacked A.F. (18) from the village of Dolno
Blace, and three other persons, two of which aged 15 and one aged 16, all of them from the village of Dolno
Blace. The team of the Emergency Medical Service provided them with medical aid at the scene, and A.F. and
one 15-year-old were taken to the complex of clinics “Majka Tereza”. After the event, several resident of the
village of Dolno Blace expressed their outrage on the scene, bus soon withdrew. Measures are taken to solve
the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 19.10.2018, at the bus stop near the village of Chucher Sandevo,
on a PTC bus no. 81 which transits from Skopje to Dolno Blace.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: 4 victims, 3 of whom are minors.
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC)
Perpetrator(s): 4 unknown perpetrators, 1 perpetrator identified through recognition.
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 part of the city is populated by people of different ethnicities, and the buses
that stop at the bus stop also transit through neighborhoods with mixed ethnic structure;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – Conflict situations and clashes between young people of different
ethnicities on buses and at bus stops.
3. Location – the incident occurred on bus no. 81
Status of the case: A notification has been submitted to PPO, further status unknown.
Response of the local authorities: To the request submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking
whether there are indicators verifying hate crime in this case, we got a response identical in January 2019,
stating that in regard to this case, they had taken measures to find and identify the perpetrators. One person
has been identified and a notification has been submitted to PPO for further action.
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.
