The Interior Ministry registered over the weekend a series of incidents in Skopje, Tetovo and Prilep. In almost all of them, young people were attacked and beaten for no reason. Some of the assailants have been detained as others are still being hunted, Nova Makedonija reports.

A boy ended up in hospital Sunday beaten by a group of assailants in the neighborhood of Trizla in Prilep. The motive for the attacks is unknown and the identity of the assailants has not been found out yet either.  Police are still searching for a large group of assailants that attacked a 17-year-old youth in Prilep. He was brutally beaten up by young men aged 17-21 for no reason.

Police detained Sunday five persons suspected of having beaten a 15-year-old on Orce Nikolov Street neat the Internet cafe Enternet. All assailants are known to the police for having “thick” records for thefts, robberies and violent conduct. The Interior Ministry informed that criminal charges would be pressed against all of them.