What happened: On 02.11.2018, around 21:30, in the vicinity of a restaurant on \u201cBoris Kidrich\u201d Street in
\nTetovo, after finishing the celebration of the anniversary of the supporter group, a 15-year-old youth from
\nTetovo, who was with a group of several friends, was physically assaulted by an unknown person who was with
\na group of several other persons. The minor was hit on his back, whereby the perpetrators escaped. The shop
\nwindow of one of the nearby stores was damaged along with a passenger vehicle owned by A.M. (27) from
\nTetovo. MoI Tetovo is taking measures to solve the case.
\nOn 23.11.2018, the police pressed criminal charges against 14 persons, including a minor, for the violence
\ncaused on 02.11 by the supporter groups of Vojvodi and Balisti.<\/p>\n
Date, time and location of the incident: 02.11.2018, around 21:30 h, Tetovo
\nSource of information: Electronic media outlets: makfax.com.mk, fokus.com.mk and gol.mk
\nVictim(s) involved: 1 person.
\nType of crime(s): Bodily injury (Article 131, CC), Violence (Article 386, CC)
\nPerpetrator(s): 7 identified perpetrators, one of whom is a minor.
\nBrief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
\nbias indicators are
\n1. Ethnicity and belonging to a supporter group \u2013 the victim was of Macedonian ethnicity, and the attackers
\nwere of the Albanian ethnic community and members of the supporter group \u201cBalisti\u201d.
\n2. Location \u2013 the incident took place in the center of Tetovo, after a sport match.<\/p>\n
Status of the case: criminal charges were pressed against 7 perpetrators.
\nResponse of the local authorities: By the time of writing of this report, MoI had not responded to
\nthe Committee\u2019s request for public information regarding this case, asking whether this incident contains
\nindicators which would verify a hate crime. The information about the criminal charges pressed was obtained
\nfrom the media.
\nImpact on the victims and the community: This incident calls into question the ethnic co-existence of
\nthe two major ethnic communities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What happened: On 02.11.2018, around 21:30, in the vicinity of a restaurant on \u201cBoris Kidrich\u201d 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… […]<\/p>\n