What happened: The bus driver reported an incident when two groups of high school students got in to
a verbal argument and then into a massive fight in the bus. When he tried to intervene, the students got
out of the bus, breaking several of its windows. The fight stopped after the Police intervened.
Date, time and location of the incident: April 25th, 13:40hrs, Aleksandar Makedonski blv., in front of
High School Boro Petrushevski, Skopje.
Source of information: National electronic media kurir.mk.
Victim(s) involved: Unknown number of victims on both sides.
Type of the crime(s): Participation in a fight Art.132 CCRM, Bodily harm (Atr.130), Endangerment of
safety (Art.144), Violence (Art.386), and Damaging of other’s property (Art. 243).
Perpetrator(s): Unknown number of perpetrators, possibly on both sides.
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: The bias motive in this incident is ethnic origin,
citizenship or language, and the bias indicators in this incident are:
1. Presumed difference between victim and perpetrator on ethnic grounds – due to the mixed ethnic composition
of the students that attend high schools in the immediate vicinity area of the incident, the ethnicity
of the perpetrators may differ from the victim’s.
2. Nature of violence – the incident was carried our publicly, in a public transportation bus.
3. Lack of other motives – The police stated via the media that the participants said that they don’t know
each other and don’t have any prior disputes.
Status of the case: Criminal and misdemeanour charges pressed.
Response of local authorities: The police stated via the media that they have filed eleven misdeme-
anour charges for disturbance of the public peace and order and a criminal charge for Damaging of
other’s property. However, The Ministry of Interior stated via Answer upon a Request for information
of public character sent by the Committee that the eleven people involved are brought up against
misdemeanour charges, in accordance with the Law on misdemeanours against the public peace and
order, not mentioning the criminal charge they announced via the media. Also, there has been no
answer as to the fact that indicates to the possible motive of the crime.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This type of incidents brings into question the general
security situation in the country and the cohabitation between the different groups in the society.
