More Arrests in Bulgaria Targeting Vote-Buying Before the April Elections
A specialized police operation targeting vote buying has led to the arrest of three individuals in the town of Byala Slatina, authorities confirmed
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Bulgarian Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov had to give an embarrassing account before Parliament Wednesday to explain the grounds behind a violent police break in last week. Photo by BGNES.
Kadir Mustafov, member of the Kardzhali family that recently suffered from violence on part of the Bulgarian police, stated that policemen had absolutely no ground for entering his home and probably had ulterior motives.
Speaking in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio Thursday morning, Mustafov said that interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov must have been misled from his Karzhdali subordinates and that the account presented by him before Parliament Wednesday was incorrect.
Mustafov again denied that he had called Dzhem Mustafa to order prostitutes, saying that he simply wanted to use his taxi services. Mustafov was convinced that since his phone conversations were recorded by the police, that can be quickly ascertained.
He further expressed dismay at the fact that after having tracked alleged pimp Dzhem Mustafa, the police have let him and the alleged prostitutes out of attention in order to break into the Mustafovi home. Kadir Mustafov was convinced that the break-in and violence that ensued had ulterior motives.
"A lot ot people must have called Dzhem that night," Kadir said. "Why did police targed precisely us?" He added that the action might have been politically motivated.
Mustafov is a local activist of opposition party Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
He reiterated the resolve of his family to sue the Bulgarian police, both at home courts and in Strasbourg.
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