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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 17, 2019, 12:17:05 am
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Far-right activists stage torchlit march in Bulgarian capital
Angel Krasimirov
SOFIA (Reuters) - More than 2,000 far-right activists from several European countries staged a torchlit procession through Sofia on Saturday to honor a Bulgarian pro-Nazi general, despite opposition from the Balkan country’s political parties and Jewish groups.
(https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20190216&t=2&i=1357318110&r=LYNXNPEF1F0NV&w=1280)
Members and supporters of several nationalist organizations take part in a march in commemoration of late General Hristo Lukov, a Bulgarian army commander, in Sofia, Bulgaria, February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
The procession, known as the Lukov March after Hristo Lukov, who led the pro-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s and early 1940s, went ahead after a court overturned the Sofia municipality’s ban for a second consecutive year.
Participants, mostly young men in dark clothing, many bearing swastikas and making the Nazi salute, laid wreathes at the former home of Lukov amid heavy police security. Some activists had come from Germany, Sweden, Hungary and elsewhere.
Continued at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-farright-march/far-right-activists-stage-torchlit-march-in-bulgarian-capital-idUSKCN1Q50PG (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-farright-march/far-right-activists-stage-torchlit-march-in-bulgarian-capital-idUSKCN1Q50PG)
Sounds like their own version of those protests in Charlottesville, without perhaps, opposition. Bulgaria has a relatively low population of just over 7 million.