What happened: A photo emerged on the social media of a graffiti sprayed on a building in Bitola
\nreading \u201cDeath to Shqiptars!\u201d, in Macedonian and Albanian and an ironic remark \u201cSuch is the law\u201d which
\nis the latest expression of hate speech on grounds of ethnicity, \u201cembellishing\u201d the walls of this street in
\nBitola as of today.
\nThis comes after the adoption of the Law on the Use of Languages and it is not a rare occurrence in
\nBitola, according to the observers of CIVIL. At the anniversary of the Albanian alphabet, two years ago, the
\nwindows of the Museum of the Albanian Alphabet got broken, and in March last year, four Molotov cocktails
\nwere thrown at the same object.<\/p>\n
Date, time and location of the incident: 18 January, unspecified, on the wall of a building in Bitola.
\nSource of information: social media, electronic media outlet civilmedia.mk
\nVictim(s) involved: none.
\nType of crime(s): Damage of Objects of Others (Article 243, CC), Inciting Hatred, Discord or Intolerance on
\nNational, Racial, Religious and other Discriminatory Grounds (Article 319, CC)
\nPerpetrator(s): two perpetrators identified, one of whom is a minor (17).
\nBrief description of the event with bias indicators: In this incident, the bias motive is ethnicity, while the
\nbias indicators are:
\n1. Pattern of previous incidents \u2013 Graffiti spreading hate speech on grounds of ethnicity had been written
\non previous occasions as well.<\/p>\n
Status of the case: Unknown
\nResponse of the local authorities: On 30.01.2018, MoI pressed criminal charges against two perpetrators
\nfor the crime of Racial and other discrimination.
\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: A photo emerged on the social media of a graffiti sprayed on a building in Bitola reading \u201cDeath to Shqiptars!\u201d, in Macedonian and Albanian and an ironic remark \u201cSuch is the law\u201d which is the latest expression of hate speech on grounds of ethnicity, \u201cembellishing\u201d the walls of… […]<\/p>\n