What happened: On 19.02.2020, around 1:00 p.m., at SIA Skopje, it was reported that on a public bus, line no. 57, headed from Radishani to Butel, on Aleksandar Urdarevski Street, the public peace and order were disturbed by a fight due to mutual intolerance between three teenagers aged 15 to 16, on one side, and five teenagers aged 13 to 16, on the other, all from Skopje. The police issued minutes and determined a misdemeanour pursuant to Article 11, paragraph 3 and Article 34 of the Law on Misdemeanours against the Public Peace and Order.
Brief description of the incident with bias indicators: In this incident the bias motive is ethnic origin, with the bias indicators being:
- Ethnic origin – the victims and the attackers belonged to a different ethnic community;
- Location – the incident occurred on a public transport bus line on which the commuters belong to different ethnicities.
Impact on the victims and the community: These types of incidents call into question the general safety in the country and cohabitation among the different ethnic groups in society.
