Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Football hooligans fight downtown Sofia, 42 arrested

| updated on 10/21/17 8:00 PM
Photo: BGNES

Fans of the Levski and CSKA football teams got into a fight on the Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi Blvd. downtown Sofia. One person is slightly injured and a total of 42 have been arrested. The two groups ran into each other on their way to the Vassil Levski Stadium around 2:40 pm and a clash followed, the interior ministry reports. The police officers deployed nearby interfered immediately and arrested several fans. The enhanced police presence along the streets downtown will remain after the end of the match as well, for security reasons.




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Radostin Vasilev

Sofia City Court suspends case against MECH leader Radostin Vassilev 

The Sofia City Court has suspended the case against MECH leader Radostin Vasilev , on the grounds that he had acquired immunity after taking his oath as an MP in the 51st National Assembly. Vasilev was accused of putting pressure on former There Is..

published on 11/13/24 3:19 PM

RSM should not waste historic time for its European membership

Bulgaria expects the government and parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia to implement soon all that is set out in the Negotiating Framework and the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told..

published on 11/13/24 3:02 PM

MPs fail again to elect speaker

Newly-elected Bulgarian MPs have again failed to elect a speaker for the 51st National Assembly. Just as in the first parliamentary session, of the five candidates nominated, Raya Nazaryan of GERB-SDS and Andrei Tsekov of "We Continue the Change -..

published on 11/13/24 2:21 PM