The Supreme Court for Discrimination in Bulgaria has convicted Krasimir Karakachanov for the statement against the Roma on the 8th of January 2019 in the Vojvodinsko village in Plovdiv – said the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, as published by Bulgarian media.
“The Gypsies in Bulgaria have become really rude. Several years ago they beat up a police officer, two days ago they were beating up the army. The tolerance of the Bulgarian society is close to a boiling point” This refers to the case in Vojvodinovo, when two Roma men attacked a Bulgarian man from the village. The attackers were identified and later convicted.
The speech of Karakachanov received an immediate reaction from the majority of the Roma population. According to the court, of particular importance is the fact that the statements of Karakachanov were widely spread throughout the media, as well as the fact that he did not criticize the individuals who committed the crime, but that he spoke for the whole ethnic group.
Link: https://www.expres.mk/krakachanov-osuden-navreda-na-ciganite-vo-bugarija/
