What happened: During the football match between FC Teteks from Tetovo, and FC Shkupi from
Skopje, the members of the supporters clubs Shverceri (Shkupi) and Vojvodi (Teteks) started chanting offensive slurs at each other, after which they started throwing stones at each other, damaging one
Ambulance vehicle.
Date, time and location of the incident: October 14th, 15:00hrs, Tetovo City Stadium.
Source of information: Local electronic media plusinfo.mk.
Victim(s) involved: One person with unknown nationality.
Type of the crime(s): Participation in a Fight (Art.132), Violence (Art.386), Damaging of other’s proper-
ty (Art. 243) CCRM.
Perpetrator(s): Unknown number of members of two Supporters Clubs, one compriswed of Macedo-
nian, and other of Albanian supporters
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: The bias motive in this incident that occurred during
a sports match is ethnic origin, citizenship or language, and the bias indicators in this incident are:
1. Difference between perpetrator and victim on ethnicity – the ethnic composition of the Supporters clubs
differ one from the other. Shverceri are an Albanian Supporters Club, while Vojvodi are Macedonian.
2. Cultural difference between perpetrator and victim – at the time of the incident, both groups were engaged
in activities promoting their culture and group identity.
3. Comments – The incident followed an exchange of offensive slurs between the members of the
Supporters clubs.
4. Nature of violence – the incident was carried out in public.
5. Lack of other motives.
Status of the case: Under investigation.
Response of local authorities: The MOI answered on the Request for information sent by the
Committee that they are undertaking the necessary measures for complete clarification of the case.
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 ethnic communities in the society.
