"Shouting, fighting among themselves, screaming in the streets and on balconies at 4, 5 and 6 in the morning. We haven't slept in five nights." That is part of a post by Ohrid author Jasmina Petkovska, known as "The White Swan", who used Facebook to react to the behaviour of some of the underage visitors who spent recent days in Ohrid without a parent present.

According to her account, groups of children aged 14 to 16 were being housed around ten to a single apartment. Some of the young people were staying unregistered, leaving rubbish behind, damaging shared areas and using alcohol and illegal substances. She called for accountability both from parents and from the owners renting the apartments to them.

"An extra thousand matters more than the peace, the fear and the disturbance of everyone around," the author wrote.

This is not a question of upbringing. It is a question of registration.

The post lit up social media because it went after parental responsibility - the easiest target, and the least regulated one. But the same post contains a detail that is straight inspection business, not comment fodder: the children were staying unregistered.

Registering guests in private accommodation is not a recommendation and not a matter of manners. It is a legal obligation on the service provider. Ten-odd minors in one apartment, with no registration, means either an owner who keeps no records, or an owner who deliberately chooses not to. Either way there is an address, there is a name, and there is an authority that should be turning up at that address.

Which of those authorities was in Ohrid these five nights? From the post, the answer is clear - none. Otherwise the residents would not be solving the problem through Facebook.

The busiest week of the year, and nobody with a mandate on the ground

This is peak summer season in Ohrid. That means maximum turnover for the people renting out, maximum pressure on municipal services and every bed in town spoken for. It is also exactly the period when oversight should be at its strongest, not its weakest.

Instead, the subject was raised by one woman who had not slept in five nights. Her post has put the question of housing unaccompanied minors, registering tourists and the responsibility of those renting out apartments back on the table. The question is on the table. Whether anyone with a stamp reads it is another matter.