At the square, a small group of revolted Skopjans got in a fight with the drunk KFOR soldiers. At that moment, a policeman was passing through the square by chance and tried to prevent a fight. However, he was roughly prevented in that and in the process was inflicted physical injuries by the American soldiers. At the same time the KFOR military police showed up and they and Macedonian policemen joined in breaking up the fight. Unofficially, we learned that during the same night an incident also occurred at the trading center in the Kapistec district of Skopje.
Witnesses claim that a drunk American marine beat up a Macedonian policeman.
Several minutes later, about ten more policemen arrived and they overpowered the marine by force and took him to a police station. These two incident are not unique. On Monday night a group of American soldiers disturbed public peace and order in the City shopping center in Skopje. After leaving the caf , drunk KFOR soldiers behaved violently, harassed passers by and urinated on the shop windows. The KFOR press-center in Skopje confirmed incidents caused by the soldiers from the American KFOR Corps.