Three of the people detained at a private club associated with the Plovdiv branch of the international neo-Nazi organization “Blood & Honour” have been charged with incitement to discrimination, hatred, and violence based on race, national origin, or sexual orientation, Deputy District Prosecutor Neno Dimov said at a briefing. Two of them are father and son, while the third – the tenant of the premises – has been charged as the perpetrator. During searches, authorities found flags featuring Nazi symbols, including swastikas and inscriptions. Literature promoting neo-Nazi ideology was also discovered in the homes of some members of the organization. The prosecutor also said that authorities are investigating links between some members of the organization and several of the young people who were present during the killing on Plovdiv’s Mladezhki Halm (Youth Hill). One of them is a minor who was detained together with the 18-year-old suspect in that criminal investigation for an attack on Nepalese nationals and was released on €700 bail.
via bnrnews: Three detained at neo-Nazi club in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv face charges
siehe auch: Bulgarian prosecutors lay charges against alleged neo-Nazis in Plovdiv The Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office has laid charges under anti-hate crime laws against three men aged 18, 39 and 42, the Prosecutor’s Office said on August 17. The charges are that, with one as a perpetrator and the other two as accomplices, “through speech and in other ways, they preached discrimination, violence or hatred based on race, skin colo”r, origin, nationality or ethnicity, or sexual orientation,” a crime under provisions of the Criminal Code. (…) However, in a court ruling reported by Bulgarian National Television on the evening of August 17, only Ivailo Kolev, 42, was remanded in custody. Ivelin Velev, 39 was released on bail of 1000 euro. The court accepted that there was evidence of his involvement as an accessory. His 18-year-old son, Teodor Velev, who was detained a few days ago for an attack on Nepalese citizens resident in Plovdiv, was released without bail. The court found that there was not enough evidence the younger Velev was an accomplice, but rather that he was simply a member of the organisation.
siehe auch: Bulgarian police arrest 18 in Plovdiv linked to neo-Nazi ‘Blood and Honour’ A total of 18 people belonging to the international neo-Nazi organisation “Blood and Honour” have been arrested at an overnight raid on a private club in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv, the head of the city’s regional directorate of the Interior Ministry Vassil Kostadinov told reporters on August 16. “The people who gathered at the private club shared the ideology of the international neo-Nazi political network ‘Blood and Honour’, preaching the superiority of the white race. The movement is banned in several European countries,” Kostadinov said. Flags and posters with various neo-Nazi symbols, as well as a gas pistol, were found in the private club
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