What happened: On 02.11.2018, around 21:30, in the vicinity of a restaurant on “Boris Kidrich” Street in
Tetovo, after finishing the celebration of the anniversary of the supporter group, a 15-year-old youth from
Tetovo, who was with a group of several friends, was physically assaulted by an unknown person who was with
a group of several other persons. The minor was hit on his back, whereby the perpetrators escaped. The shop
window of one of the nearby stores was damaged along with a passenger vehicle owned by A.M. (27) from
Tetovo. MoI Tetovo is taking measures to solve the case.
On 23.11.2018, the police pressed criminal charges against 14 persons, including a minor, for the violence
caused on 02.11 by the supporter groups of Vojvodi and Balisti.
Date, time and location of the incident: 02.11.2018, around 21:30 h, Tetovo
Source of information: Electronic media outlets: makfax.com.mk, fokus.com.mk and gol.mk
Victim(s) involved: 1 person.
Type of crime(s): Bodily injury (Article 131, CC), Violence (Article 386, CC)
Perpetrator(s): 7 identified perpetrators, one of whom is a minor.
Brief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
bias indicators are
1. Ethnicity and belonging to a supporter group – the victim was of Macedonian ethnicity, and the attackers
were of the Albanian ethnic community and members of the supporter group “Balisti”.
2. Location – the incident took place in the center of Tetovo, after a sport match.
Status of the case: criminal charges were pressed against 7 perpetrators.
Response of the local authorities: By the time of writing of this report, MoI had not responded to
the Committee’s request for public information regarding this case, asking whether this incident contains
indicators which would verify a hate crime. The information about the criminal charges pressed was obtained
from the media.
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.
