What happened: A sixteen-year-old boy stabbed his peer in the stomach in the schoolyard of the school
that they both attend, MoI informed.
The Sector for Internal Affairs, Skopje, pressed criminal charges against a 16-year-old minor from Skopje
on grounds of reasonable suspicion of him committing the crime of “Severe bodily injury”. According to the
information of the police, on 10 April this year around 13:00h, in the schoolyard of a secondary school in
Skopje, and after a previous verbal argument with his peer F.R., the suspect inflicted a stab wound to his
stomach with a knife.
Date, time and location of the incident: 10 April, around 13:00h, in a secondary school in Skopje.
Source of information: Electronic media outlet fokus.mk
Victim(s) involved: 1 minor (age 16).
Type of crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Severe bodily injury (Article 131, CC), Participation in a fight
(Article 132, CC)
Perpetrator(s): 1 minor perpetrator (16).
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 is a minor and of a different ethnicity than the perpetrator;
2. Pattern of previous incidents – assaults of students in, or in the vicinity of a school
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of the local authorities: MoI’s response to the request for information provided no additional
information on this case.
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.
