What happened: On 20.10.2018, the Sector for Computer Crime and Digital Forensics under the Ministry
of Interior submitted a Notification for revealed content which contain calls to violence or announcements
of behavior which would jeopardize someone’s safety, and which had been posted on Facebook profiles in the
past 24 hours and were adequately documented.
Criminal charges will be pressed against G.T. (48) from Skopje for spreading hate speech and Endangering
the safety of the MPs in the Assembly of North Macedonia in accordance with Article 319 and Article 144
paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code to the competent Prosecutor’s Office, MoI informed.
Date, time and location of the incident: On Facebook – the social media platform, on 19.10.2018
Source of information: MoI’s daily newsletter.
Victim(s) involved: Apart from material damage, there were no victims in this incident.
Type of crime(s): Inciting Hatred, Discord or Intolerance on National, Racial, Religious and other
Discriminatory Grounds (Article чл.319) and Endangering the safety (Article. 144 paragraph 4 CC).
Perpetrator(s): G.T. (48) from Skopje.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is political affiliation
or political convictions, and the bias indicators are:
1. Pattern of previous incidents – incidents where such crimes were committed via social media had
previously been registered as well.
Status of the case: criminal charges pressed to the competent PPPO.
Response of the local authorities: To the request submitted to MoI in relation to this incident, asking
whether there are indicators verifying hate crime in this case, we got a response in January 2019, stating
that in regard to this case, they submitted criminal charges for the crimes under Article 3019 and Article 144
paragraph 4 to the competent PPO for further action
Impact on the victims and the community: This incident calls into question the general political stability
in the country.
