What happened: On 11.03.2018, around 22:10 h in Skopje, at “Skenderbeg” Square, after identifying A.I. (26)
from Skopje by police officers, he returned with a larger group of people who started threatening the lives of the
police officers, and then fled the scene. MoI is taking measures to find the perpetrators and fully clarify the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 11 March, around 22:10, Skenderbeg Square, Skopje.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter
Victim(s) involved: a police officer
Type of crime(s): Endangering the safety (Article 144 од CC) Assaulting an official while performing security
duties ( Article 383 of CC)
Perpetrator(s): one identified perpetrator.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are:
1. Difference in ethnicity – the victim and the attacker are of different ethnicity (Macedonians and Albanians);
2. Location – The incident took at a location where such and similar attacks had also previously occurred, and
where people of different ethnicities live and move through.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response states that the perpetrator has been identified and that
they will submit adequate charges to the PPO.
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..
