What happened: Two seventeen-year-old boys, after a previous argument, were physically attacked
by another group of minors, and thus suffered bodily injuries by an unknown, hard object. The minors were transferred to “Sv. Naum Ohridski” General Hospital where they received medical treatment.
Date, time and location of the incident: 14 March, around 13:30, near TC Chairchanka, Skopje
Source of information: Electronic medium Kurir.mk
Victim(s) involved: Two minors.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): A group of several minors
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 – the incident took place in an area inhabited by people of a different
ethnicity;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Filed criminal charges.
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA submitted the fi led criminal charges to the public
Prosecutor’s Offi ce in Skopje.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
