Yambol Completes Demolition of Notorious Building

Society | October 13, 2010, Wednesday // 15:09
Bulgaria: Yambol Completes Demolition of Notorious Building Only piles of dust, rats and fleas have been left after the demolition of the notorious apartment building 20 in the Bulgarian city of Yambol. Photo by BGNES

The notorious apartment building 20, which used to accommodate Roma in the Bulgarian city of Yambol, have been completely demolished, sliveninfo.com reported.

The demolition, which continued for 27 days, ended on Wednesday. By noon, only a pile of dust and rats remained from the building.

According to official data from the demolishing company, the construction waste has been a total of 10,000 cu m and 3,600 tons of garbage was thrown.

The workers have stated that rats kept coming out during the demolishing process.

"There were at least 2000 rats. And no one could count the fleas," they said, adding that Roma could still be seen around the apartment building during the day but they disappeared in the evening.

The demolishing operation has cost the Yambol municipality about BGN 100,000.

There is still no update from the Administrative Court on the appeal of the order by Yambol mayor, Georgi Slavov, for the demolition of the building.

The Roma were evicted in September because they had illegally occupied apartment building 20. However, as they were asked to move out, they have begun to break the walls with hammers, in order to remove the metal structures form inside the concrete, and to sell them for scrap.

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