Yuriy Galev, president of the Rilski Sportist football club and municipal councilor from the nationalist party Ataka in the town of Samokov, has been shot early Sunday morning.

Galev was brought to the Pirogov hospital in Sofia with an ambulance from Samokov at about 6 am Sunday, according to the Interior Ministry

Unofficial reports say unknown men shot at his car. Galev has five gunshot wounds in the stomach and the limbs.

The head of the emergency department at the Pirogov hospital, Dr. Stoyan Sopotenski, is expected to provide information about Galev's condition later on Sunday.

Galev is notorious in Samokov for a number of criminal acts. The latest one was in February when Galev and several of his associates beat two ski lift guards in the Borovets mountain resort after the latter refused to let his son ride the lift for free.

In the wake of this incident, the local police arrested four of Galev's men for arson of an office of the Borosport firm, which operates the ski lift.

More information about Yuriy Galev read HERE and HERE

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