What happened: At 17:00, near Bit Pazar, while the JSP bus no. 50 was moving on the route from Bit
Pazar to Centar, around ten, unknown persons physically attacked two seventeen-year-old boys from
the villages of Orman and Mirkovci on the top fl oor of the bus. According to MOI’s information, both
minors suffered visible injuries with swelling on their faces and bodies.
Date, time and location of the incident: 10 November, around 17:00, on a JSP bus no. 50, on the Bit
Pazar – Centar route.
Source of information: Electronic medium Plusinfo.
Victim(s) involved: Two minors.
Type of the crime(s): Violence (Article 386, CC), Bodily injury (Article 130, CC).
Perpetrator(s): A group of ten unknown perpetrators.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity,
nationality or language and the bias indicators are:
1. Assumed difference in ethnicity – the perpetrators and the victim were in the bus no. 50 which
transits through an area inhabited by people of a different ethnicity; it is possible that the ethnicity
of the perpetrators is different from the ethnicity of the victims;
2. Nature of the violence – it was a public incident.
Status of the case: Under investigation.
Response of Local Authorities: In MOI’s response to the Committee’s request for public information
regarding this incident, it is stated that SIA Skopje was taking all measure and actions for solving the
crime of disturbance of the public peace and order, after which charges would be fi led accordingly.
Impact on the victim(s) and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic coexistence
between the two largest communities in the country.
