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Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office and the State Agency for National Security (DANS) searched the mosques in Pazardzhik's Iztok neighbourhood in an operation targeting suspected rpopagation of radical ideology, 25 November 2014, Photo BGNES
Five of the six people detained in the city of in Pazardzhik for suspected propagation of anti-democratic ideology, have been released, BNR radio station reported on Wednesday.
Imam Ahmed Musa Ahmed, seen as the spiritual leader of Muslims in the Roma neighbourhood of the city in southern Bulgaria, remains in police custody. The maximum period of police detention under Bulgarian law is 72 hours.
The morning prayer at the mosque in Pazardzhik's Iztok neighbourhood where the imam had preached went on as usual.
Imam Ahmed Musa Ahmed is appealing a four-year jail sentence issued against him for propagating radical Islam ideas.
A 15-year-old boy of Roma origin, identified as Krasimir Nadezhdov Tsvetanov, was killed in a violent altercation at a Sofia shopping mall on Sunday evening
The director of the police in Pazardzhik, Daniel Barakov, has been removed from his post, and an investigation has been launched
President Rumen Radev has sharply criticized the political environment in Bulgaria following the recent municipal elections in Pazardzhik
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS-New Beginning) has emerged as the leading political force in the repeat elections for municipal councilors in Pazardzhik
Greece is intensifying its crackdown on crime within Roma communities through the deployment of specialized police patrols organized by the Department for Combating Organized Crime
Following the recent severe traffic accident in Sofia, the capital’s police have launched a targeted operation in Roma neighborhoods
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A man armed with a knife caused panic in a restaurant in Sofia’s Sveta Troitsa neighborhood after attacking and threatening customers on Monday
Since the start of the week, Sofia police have carried out a large-scale operation targeting drug production, storage, and distribution, resulting in the detention of 64 people
Bulgarian customs officers have intercepted a substantial quantity of illegal sexual stimulants and anabolic steroids in two separate courier shipments
Bulgarian and French law enforcement authorities have jointly dismantled an organized criminal group involved in large-scale cocaine trafficking across Europe
A British judge has raised concerns about a growing trend of young Bulgarians being drawn into drug dealing in Cornwall
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