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Simeonov promised that during his mandate there would be a much different treatment of interethnic conflicts than before. Shortly after, the municipality issued a notice for removing 17 buildings in the Romani neighbourhood considered to be illegal constructed without building permit. This in practice makes the inhabitants homeless as there is not any alternative solution for housing proposed to them. Such evaluation, and the following eviction of more than persons is deemed discriminatory and a form of harassment, as this has targeted only the Romani segregated area in the city, and has been initiated as a direct consequence by the demands of non-Romani citizens during aggressive ethnic protests.

On 8 and 9 July , other protests were organised in Smolian and Biala. In Biala the protests started after a conflict between a non-Roma boy and Roma, years old boy was seriously injured. In Smolian a similar incident lead to another anti-Roma protest. The incident occurred after a year-old non-Roma man harassed a Romani girl in a club, which led to violence between him and two Romani men.

During the incident the non-Roma was severely injured. This only serves to spread fear and hatred by associating the Roma with large-scale criminality. With Karakachanov as Minister of Defence holding clearly anti-Roma biases, it comes as no surprise that things only got worse:. On 8 August , after a case of sexual harassment with an alleged Romani perpetrator, masked police officers raided the Romani neighbourhood in the village Kamenar Varna region.

They beat about a hundred Romani individuals, including children and two pregnant women. The incident was recorded by a number of Romani residents according to the same sources. None of the incidents were reported to the police and the conflict has been heavily ethnicized which contributes to already escalated tension. It has become apparent that since the appointment of Simeonov and Karakachanov, the situation for Romani people in the country has considerably worsened.

It appears that there is a new wave of police violence and systematic policies of persecuting Romani communities in the country. While racist abuse of players inside stadiums attracts attention outside Bulgaria, within the country it is the Roma who are the principal targets of thugs in black and men in suits.

Krasimir Karakachanov, head of the Bulgarian National Movement, holds three portfolios — deputy prime minister, minister for defence and minister for public order and security.

Last Monday night, Europe was confronted with what for most Roma in the country is the everyday. Rising anti-Gypsyism, decline of the rule of law, and increasingly fascist political rhetoric is nothing new — it just rarely gets such a public stage. The events of Monday night have also exposed the deep fault lines within Bulgarian society, with some of its white citizens viewing things very differently from their Roma counterparts.

For example, it is officially recognized that in hard economic times, Gypsies will suffer more from the economic dislocations due to ethnic prejudice News from Helsinki Watch 2 Apr. Before the coming into power of the UDF government in October , communist governments for decades denied ethnic minorities their fundamental human rights ibid.

Today the problem lies in how to achieve these guaranteed constitutional rights in practice Country Reports , The following information should give an indication of the public's perception of communism and communists in Bulgaria today.

The Bulgarian constitution states that all persons are equal before the law and that no one shall suffer because of their opinion or political affiliation News from Helsinki Watch Aug. The source notes that with the introduction of democracy in , former communists have been held accountable for their past actions, but does not indicate that this applies to all communists ibid.

The Union of Democratic Forces UDF government has made several attempts to "decommunize" Bulgaria through prosecutions, and purging from public life of former communist party officials, and reforms have been introduced to reinforce democracy ibid. In a 16 March report, the BBC noted an incident of resentment against former communists.

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