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Players of Steaua Bucharest celebrate after scoring a goal against CSKA Sofia during their UEFA Europa League play off second leg soccer match in Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 August 2011. EPA/BGNES
Five Romanian citizens have been sentenced for vandalism after Thursday's Europa League clash between Romania's Steaua Bucharest and Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia.
Three of the away team's fans have been apprehended during the game for throwing smoke bombs. Another one of the detained fans was caught with a smoke bomb hidden in his pants.
One more Romanian has been arrested for smashing a bottle in the stadium fence.
One of the fans has been banned from attending sport events in Bulgaria or abroad for a period of one year. The others have received fines between BGN 300 and BGN 400.
On Thursday, CSKA, managed to pull off a draw against Steaua at home but lost 1:3 on aggregate. Brazilian striker Michel Platini equalized in the 83th minute after Cristian Tanase had scored for the Romanian squad.
After the first clash between the two squads last week, Dimitar Borisov, the president of CSKA, was accused of making racist comments against Romanian Steaua Bucharest's Roma players
Municipal crews worked through the night to clear the center of Sofia after the violent unrest that erupted late in the evening following the budget protest
Thousands of Romanians gathered in Bucharest to demonstrate their support for the country's European future, waving EU and Romanian flags in a large-scale pro-European rally
German authorities have uncovered a large-scale scheme involving Bulgarians and Romanians fraudulently receiving child benefits for non-existent or absent children
In a brazen act of vandalism, the historic Great Basilica in the heart of Plovdiv fell victim to a senseless attack perpetrated by intoxicated youths
A bus stop adjacent to the "Slivnitsa" metro station has been fortified with armor plating due to recurring incidents of vandalism
Residents of Sofia's Ovcha Kupel neighborhood woke up to a scene of chaos as vandals wreaked havoc on parked cars overnight
A young man from Chirpan has died after spending months in a coma following a violent assault that reportedly began over a dispute involving cigarettes
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
Italian authorities have launched an investigation into a large-scale scheme involving the illegal export of hazardous waste to Eastern Europe, with five Bulgarian nationals among those under scrutiny
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