Ethnic and Religious Clashes

Activists of the Bulgarian National Union (BNS) on the Lukov march, 2014

On April 28, three Syrian families in Rozovo hade to flee to another village, after numerous threats and public actions against them involving around 150 people.

In addition, a procession in honour of a former nationalist leader Hristo Nikolov Lukov (Military General of Bulgaria 1935-1938, active Nazi sympathiser, murdered in February 1943) is regularly held in Sofia, under the name “Lukov March”. The event gathered about 2000 people in 2014, including neo-Nazis from other countries – Germany, Belgium, Romania, Croatia, Spain, Italy and Austria.

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