Orphanage Sex, Violence Video Causes Scandal in Bulgaria

Society | January 8, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00

A video featuring Bulgarian orphans engaged in scenes of sex and violence caused a scandal in the country, with prosecution declaring to deal with the case.

Children from an institution in the coastal city of Burgas participated in the video, which is actually a trailer of a new Bulgarian movie called Baklava.

The spokesman of the regional prosecution office in Burgas, Andrey Chervenyakov told reporters on Tuesday that prosecution will check who granted permission to the filmmakers to shoot the children and who actually are the "actors" in the video.

The scandalous video, which shows rapes and drug abuse and can be seen on the Internet, made Burgas Mayor Dimitar Nikolov demand written explanation on the case from government institutions for child protection.

Nikolov is also scheduled to meet Wednesday the directors of the social institutions, in which the scenes were shot.

The director of the film, Alekso Petrov said in a letter to the media that authorities are showing fake concern and he has nothing to explain, as it would be better for people to watch the movie themselves.

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