What happened: Unknown perpetrators damaged the headquarters of the VMRO-DPMNE political
party and thus broke glass from the window on the back side of the building.
Date, time and location of the incident: 25 November, around 23:30, “Mosha Pijade” Street, Kavadarci.
Source of information: Electronic medium Telegraf.mk.
Victim(s) involved: Aside from the material damage, there were no victims of this incident.
Type of the crime(s): Damage to objects of others (Article 243, CC), Causing hatred, discord or intolerance on national, racial, religious and other discriminatory ground (Article 319, CC).
Perpetrator(s): Unknown.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is political
affi liation and the bias indicators are:
1. Target location – the target location is the headquarters of the ruling party;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – this incident is the latest in the growing trend of damaging
headquarters of political parties during the pre-election period.
Status of the case: Closed.
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that after the reporting of the event, PS Kavadarci investigated
the crime scene and established that the crime “Damage to objects of others” (Art. 243 of CC) had
been committed, and since this crime is prosecuted as a private lawsuit, no criminal charges were
fi led with PPO against the unknown perpetrator(s).
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the political stability of
the country in general.
