Send to KindleSeveral hundred of special riot police officers have been brought from Sofia to Plovdiv's Roma quarters in order to guard the peace overnight.
The police officers were brought with dozens of buses after ethnic tensions grew Sunday night in Plovdiv as ethnic Bulgarian protesters, including a number of football hooligans, came close to targeting people from the local Roma quarters – Stolipinovo, Sheker Mahala, and Adzhisan Mahala.
The tensions in the entire region grew after associates of ethnic Roma boss Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro, ran over and killed 19-year-old Angel Petrov from the village of Katunitsa late Friday. This spurred protests which culminated Saturday night in an attack on Rashkov's properties staged by several hundred football hooligans.
After Sunday's protest rally in Plovdiv, local Roma started to arm themselves in anticipation of pogroms. At the same time, however, a number of local Roma are reported to have provoked the protesters with indecent gestures and threats.
The special riot police forces were deployed all over the Roma quarters in Plovdiv. Local media say the Roma in the Stolipinovo quarter have nonetheless armed themselves as a result of rumors that they will be attacked by groups of bikers and skin heads.
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