What happened: Two groups of students participated in a fi ght in the schoolyard of the “Zef Lush
Marku” Secondary School. In one of the groups, there were three minors from Skopje and one minor
from Gostivar, while in the other group, there were four minors from the Village of Batinci, Skopje.
The persons exchanged a few punches and kicks, and at one point, a person from the second group
took out a knife and cut a student from the fi rst group four times on the head, and thus infl icted
upon him a visible bodily injury.
Date, time and location of the incident: 9 February, at 09:45, in the school yard of “Zef Ljush Marku”
Secondary School in Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic medium Republika.
Victim(s) involved: One person
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC), Participation in a Fight
(Article 132, CC)
Perpetrator(s): A group of students from the “Zef Ljush Marku” Secondary School in Skopje
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity,
nationality or language and the bias indicators are:
1. Assumed difference in ethnicity – due to the different ethnicity of the students in the aforementioned
Secondary School, it is possible that the involved groups are of a different ethnicity;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Filed request for initiation of a misdemeanor procedure
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA Skopje submitted a request for initiation of criminal
proceedings to Primary Court Skopje 1 Skopje – Misdemeanor Department on 19.04.2016.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
