What happened: On the 3rd November, in the period 12 to 16 h in Tetovo, before the start of the match
between the football clubs “Teteks” from Tetovo and “Trim lum” from Struga, as well as during the match, the
five reported men from Tetovo, together with the two reported men from Skopje, started shouting offensive
slogans.
On 23.11.2018, the police pressed criminal charges against 14 persons, including one minor, for the
violence caused on 02.11 by the supporter groups of “Vojvodi” and “Balisti”.
Date, time and location of the incident: 03.11.2018, from 12 to 16 h, Tetovo
Source of information: Electronic media outlets: makfax.com.mk, fokus.com.mk and gol.mk
Victim(s) involved: none, only material damage
Type of crime(s): Damage of Objects of Others (Article 243, CC), Violence (Article 386, CC)
Perpetrator(s): 7 identified perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are:
1. Ethnicity and belonging to a supporter group – the victim was of Macedonian ethnicity and the attackers
were of Albanian ethnicity and members of the support group “Balisti”.
2. Location –the incident took place in the center of Tetovo, after a match.
Status of the case: criminal charges were pressed against 7 perpetrators.
Response of the local authorities: By the time of writing of this report, MoI had not responded to the
Committee’s request for public information regarding this case, asking whether this incident contains
indicators which would verify a hate crime. The information about the criminal charges pressed was obtained
from the media.
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.
