Full Name: Митат Ибраими (Mitat Ibrahim)

Alternative Name: Ibrahimi or Ibrahimovic, Ibraimi

Case Status: Missing

Record ID#: 0235

*The names “Jane Doe”  and “John Doe” are English names used when the person’s true name is not known. If used above, the name refers to a person of unknown identity.

Date of Birth*: October 1, 2002
Birthplace: Sredno Konjari, Skopje region, North Macedonia
Age at the Time: 7 (some sources say he was 8 but this does not match his DOB and Date Missing).
Age Group: Child (6 to 9 Years Old)
Biological Sex: Male
Hair: Brunette
Eyes: Dark Colored
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Ethnicity: Caucasian or White
Nationality: North Macedonia
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*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

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Other Descriptors: He was part of an Albanian community living in North Macedonia, about 20 miles from Sredorek where Dane Memedi and Mirsada Heldovic disappeared.

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• Greet Tracksuit Shirt
• Blue Jeans
• Brown Boots

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Date of the Disappearance*: March 19, 2010

Description: Mitat Ibraimi was a boy from the village of Sredno Konjari (Средно Коњари) near Skopje, North Macedonia. He was born on 1 October 2002 to parents Selajdin (father) and Jeldze (mother), and lived with his family in a rural community outside the capital. He is described as being of Albanian ethnicity, reflecting the mixed Macedonian–Albanian character of that region (Link).

Mitat disappeared on 19 March 2010. According to Macedonian press reports, he was last seen near the Pčinja River (река Пчиња), not far from his home in Sredno Konjari. The exact moment of disappearance is not precisely reconstructed in public reporting: he was playing or moving in the vicinity of the river area, and then simply could not be located. At the time he went missing, he was reportedly dressed in a green tracksuit top, blue jeans and brown boots, a clothing description repeated in later missing-persons compilations based on the Ministry of Interior data.

Initial investigative work treated the case as a probable accidental drowning. Police and search teams, including local residents, focused on the Pčinja River and riverbanks. Contemporaneous coverage notes that authorities suspected he might have fallen into the river, and searched the riverbed and surrounding area, but no body, clothing, or other physical trace was recovered despite those efforts. Within roughly ten days of his disappearance, his case was serious enough that Interpol was notified and involved in the wider search, an unusual step for what was publicly still framed as a possible drowning rather than a confirmed abduction.

The context around Mitat’s case changed dramatically a short time later, when two other children—Mirsada Heldović and Dane Memedi—went missing in the Kumanovo area (Bavči/Sredorek Roma settlements) in late March and April 2010. They too were from an ethnic minority (Roma). Macedonian investigative pieces from 2011 and 2018 discuss all three children together, describing them as having disappeared in “extremely mysterious circumstances,” with no conclusive evidence of drowning or voluntary disappearance in any of the cases. These articles emphasize that, despite international notices, checks in neighboring countries, searches of riverbeds, questioning of witnesses, investigations of suspicious jeeps, and border controls, police were still unable to determine what happened to Mitat, Mirsada, or Dane.

Multiple Victims?: Maybe

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*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

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Multiple Victims?: Yes

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*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

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Description: While the Macedonian police initially stated there were no indications the children had been kidnapped or that the cases were linked, later regional reporting raised a different possibility. In 2012, Croatian authorities arrested Sedat (Sadat) Toskic, a Croatian-linked suspect with a history of forgery and human trafficking, after he attempted to register four Albanian children in Zagreb using forged birth certificates, assisted by a woman named Sanja Kristo. Albanian and regional media, citing Macedonian journalist Nevrij Ademi and Croatian investigative information, later reported that Toskic was suspected not only of that 2012 smuggling attempt, but also of earlier child kidnappings, including the March 2010 disappearance of Mitat Ibraimi near Skopje and the May 2010 disappearance of Bleona Mata in the Kukës region of Albania.

According to these reports, Croatian police believed the four children intercepted in 2012 were Albanian minors being moved using falsified documents; they were reportedly returned to families in North Macedonia, though their identities were not made public due to child-protection rules. The suspicion that Toskic could be tied to Mitat’s disappearance remains exactly that—a suspicion.