Crime
A man who was digging in the garbage found the body of a baby girl at the dumpsite of Bulgaria's northern Pleven on Wednesday.
The body has been sent for analysis to the Forensic Medicine department in Pleven.
Crime | November 15, 2006, Wednesday // 00:00
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The 8-year-old boy, who was found dead at a dumpsite in Bulgaria's city of Haskovo Wednesday morning, is believed to have been murdered, Darik News reported.
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Sofia City Court postponed again the hearing on Bulgarian MP Fidel Beev's case, who is charged with malfeasances in office while he was mayor of Bulgaria's southern Velingrad.
On Tuesday the court postponed the hearing for Wednesday, but it was put off y
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A seventh-grader from the southern Bulgarian village of Ustina beat up a teacher who tried to help a younger child attacked by the aggressive teenager.
The teenager said she started hitting the boy's head against a cupboard because he offended her by mak
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Austrian authorities have forwarded to their Bulgarian colleagues information about one of the bank accounts disclosed to store more than EUR 1 M of a former chief of Sofia heating company.
Valentin Dimitrov was found to keep in various bank accounts mor
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Police in the Italian town of Mondragone has busted a factory, employing illegal migrants, including Bulgarians, media reported.
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A shepherd found the body of an 8-year-old boy Wednesday morning at a dumpsite in Bulgaria's city of Haskovo.
The kid may be Murad Mustafov, who was reported missing on Tuesday, Darik News reported.
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Hundreds of books have gone up in flames after a fire struck three basements near the Slaveykov Square in Sofia, where the capital's biggest open-air book market is located.
The fire started about an hour and a half after midnight, swiftly engulfing the
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The yard of Sofia Opera has been engulfed in flames at about 5 pm on Tuesday eating up construction material on stock.
Firefighting vehicles and equipment rushed to the scene and managed to extinguish the fire for 15 minutes.
Crime | November 14, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
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The trial against a former director of the Sofia heating utility is expected to reach its end within four months, according to prosecutor Bozhidar Dzhambazov.
Sofia Court of Appeals has decided to leave in custody the former executive director of Sofia's
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Bulgaria' Shumen local court sentenced to 13 years in prison a mother, who killed her newborn baby on October 11, 2005, Darik News reported.
The mother Lidiya Vassileva confessed in court she killed her baby immediately after giving birth in her home in
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Sofia City Court opened Tuesday the trial of Bulgarian MP Fidel Beev, who is charged with malfeasances in office while he was mayor of Bulgaria's southern Velingrad but the hearing was postponed for Wednesday.
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Huge amounts of illegal weapons, ammunitions and explosive substances have been discovered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Darik News reported.
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The former policeman, who robbed a bank office in downtown Sofia, was instigated to commit the crime due to piling debts.
Kostadin Lazarov, 31, was addicted to football betting and could not pay off his debts.
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Sofia City Court did not proceed Monday with the case of Alexey Kichatov against the Bulgarian state, Darik News reported.
The case was not launched because Kichatov failed to turn up in court.
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An alleged head of a Bulgarian organised crime gang in Spain was shot in the head, while walking with his girlfriend in the Majadahonda area near Madrid.
Local media informed Peter Georget Morientes, 39, was shot three times and rushed to hospital in a g
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A former policeman was identified to be the armed robber who plundered money from a bank branch in downtown Sofia.
Darik News reported the man who rushed into the office of Expressbank Monday morning was sole, unlike earlier reports the robbery was a gro
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The Bulgarian Anton Savov, who has a criminal record, went to surrender at the general department for combating organised crime early on Monday, Darik News reported.
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An armed man has robbed a branch of Expressbank in downtown Sofia, local media informed.
The assault took place in broad daylight, at 11:10 am, while the bank was open for clients.
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A Sofia court will hear Monday the case of Alexey Kichatov against the Bulgarian state who seeks justice for being held behind the bars and beaten up by policemen.
Russia-born Kichatov was one of defendants under a former trial for alleged murder of a Bu
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Bulgaria and Romania are receiving help from Scotland Yard to fight gangs and corrupt officers, The Times announced Monday.
British detectives are being sent to Eastern Europe to bolster crime-fighting techniques, while fears are still spreading that Bul
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