More Arrests in Bulgaria Targeting Vote-Buying Before the April Elections
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The son of the beaten Mustafovi family, Kadir, has annoounced that his family has decided to sue the Bulgarian police in the European Court of Human Rights. Photo by BGNES
The Mustafovi family, in whose home the police have broken in Friday evening, will sue the Bulgarian police in the European Court of Human Rights.
During a Parliamentary hearing on Wednesday, the Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has accused the son of the family, Kadir Mustafov, of ordering two prostitutes.
According to the minister, the reason for the police entering the family home was that Kadir has called a taxi driver, who, according to the police, was a pimp and who's phone was under surveillance.
In an interview for the Bulgarian Darik Radio Wednesday, Kadir claimed he knew the alleged pimp only as a taxi driver.
The son also said that the only reason for him calling the man was to order a taxi for two friends of his.
“If I had ordered a prostitute, it would now be all over the media because I think he was under surveillance that night,” Kadir said, adding that he came home after his sister told him she has broken her head and that police officers were in their home.
The son has stated that his family would not sue the interior minister on calumny charges.
“We will first solve the case with my family and then the other case. In the next days we will be in touch with the lawyers and they will have a statement on the case. We are suing the excesses of the police against the family,” Kadir said.
Mustafova and her husband are former police officers themselves.
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