What happened: Several masked perpetrators, armed with baseball bats attacked two people from
Skopje in public transportation bus. No.65, inflicting bodily harm.
Date, time and location of the incident: September 13th, 01:00hrs, Public transportation bus No.57,
Chento, Skopje.
Source of information: Local electronic media netpress.com.
Victim(s) involved: Two persons with unknown nationality.
Type of the crime(s): Participation in a Fight (Art.132), Violence (Art.386), Bodily harm (Art.130).
Perpetrator(s): Unknown group of perpetrators.
Brief description of incident with bias indicators: The bias motive in this incident is ethnic origin,
citizenship or language, and the bias indicators in this incident are:
1. Difference between perpetrator and victim on ethnicity – Due to the mixed ethnic composition of the
population in the village of Rashtak (the village to which bus No. 65 commutes) and other transit
locations of the route of bus No.65, the ethnicity of the victim may differ from the one of the
perpetrators.
2. Nature of violence – the incident was carried out in public.
3. Lack of other motives.
Status of the case: Unknown.
Response of local authorities: The MOI answered on the Request for information sent by the
Committee that they have submitted a report to the public prosecutor for the act of Violence
against an unknown perpetrator.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This type of incidents brings into question the general
security situation in the country and the cohabitation between the different ethnic communities in
the society.
