The civil National Guard team recently created by the nationalist extremists Bulgarian National Union has received a military truck to reportedly help in emergency situations.

The GAZ 66 was presented at an official ceremony to the Sofia team of the guard.

"Some people thought that we had given up, but we keep our promises and the National Guard is already a reality," the leader of BNU Boyan Rasate declared.

A year ago volunteer recruiting for the guard started, as Rasate said the teams will act "in extreme circumstances," in times of disturbances and natural disasters.

"The inactivity of the state and the police are the reasons that have pushed the BNS to begin the formation of the national guard," Rasate had said. "This is the only solution for the defence of the life, property and families of citizens."

Former Interior Minister, Rumen Petkov, had then condemned the BNS's plans, saying there were no grounds for the creation of a national guard.

"Such actions are inadmissible. It means for a political formation to create a paramilitary structure," Petkov declared.

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