What happened: On 15.10.2018, at SIA Kumanovo, R.R (32) from Iran reported that three unknown persons
had robbed him and had physically assaulted him. Measures are taken to solve the case.
Date, time and location of the incident: 15.10.2018, Kumanovo.
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: one migrant from Iran.
Type of crime(s): Robbery (Article 237 CC), Bodily injury (Article 130 CC)
Perpetrator(s): unknown perpetrators.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: The bias motive in this incident is the status of a refugee
or a migrant, i.e. the victims were migrants, and the bias indicators are:
1. Status of a migrant/refugees – the victim is a migrant/refugees;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – attacks on migrants in this part of the country, in the vicinity of the border
crossings have been previously registered as well.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: To the request submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking
whether there are indicators confirming hate crime in this case, we got a response stating that MoI were taking
measures to fully solve the case, that after the medical intervention the person had been accommodated, like
all other migrants, in the Reception and Transit Center for Refugees in Tabanovce, that the Iranian Embassy had
been informed, and that while they were making efforts to provide an interpreter, the person independently left
the migrant transit center and headed in an unknown direction.
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.
