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Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima vandalized by two employees of Sofia Opera

| updated on 10/17/18 1:17 PM
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It was announced that the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima was vandalized by two employees from the Sofia Opera technical staff. The two have been fired and removed from the opera house’s company currently on tour in Japan, Sofia Opera Director Plamen Kartaloff said, as quoted by Bulgarian National TV. 

The Japanese police are conducting an investigation into the three graffiti of the name of a Sofia football club which desecrated the Peace memorial Park in the Japanese city built in memory of the victims of the Atomic bombing in 1945. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the desecration of the Peace Monument in Hiroshima and apologized to Japan for the hooliganism. We find the expression of football bias over this UNESCO cultural monument in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombing outrageous and utterly inappropriate, the statement of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry reads.




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