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Old February 13th, 2015 #1
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jewsign Sofia mayor bans far-right ‘Lukov March’

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova told a city council meeting on February 12 that she had banned the “Lukov March” torchlight procession planned for February 14 2015, but would allow the laying of flowers at a monument to Lukov.

Fandukova said that she had imposed the ban in response to letters from the Interior Ministry, Sofia District Police Directorate, office of the Prosecutor-General and the State Agency for National Security, advising that the planned event posed a threat to public order.

Organised by the far-right Bulgarian National Union, the march honours General Hristo Lukov, who led the Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s and is widely seen as a pro-Nazi and anti-Semite.

Lukov, war minister while Bulgaria was allied to Nazi Germany in World War 2, was assassinated by communists in Sofia on February 13 1943.

The “Lukov March” has been held in Sofia since 2003, with participants wearing fascist-style garb and bearing torches.

Fandukova also banned the 2014 march, but this ban was defied.

Those calling for a ban on the march in 2015 included political parties, the Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria, and the Russian government.
 
Old February 14th, 2015 #2
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*Translate from Cyrillic to English by google.

However,there will be Lukovmarsh

13.02.2015 | 14:29

Planned for tomorrow Lukovmarsh will still be held. That said Sofia Topnovini.bg organizers. Yesterday Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced that the torchlight procession is not in agreement with the municipality and it will not allow its conduct.

Torchlight procession will

Lukovmarsh is scheduled to begin at 17:30 of the pillars in front of NDK. Of participants is only allowed to lay flowers at the monument to General Lukov Street. "Trakia". This does not refuse the organizers of the march to hold a major event.

"So far we have received DO NOT act to ban the march. We are in the legal right to gather freely and to honor the memory of a Bulgarian hero. Generally there are no what else to resort to our enemies and this is an attempt to throw mud on our name and the name of the general, "said Sofia Topnovini.bg deputy commandant of Lukovmarsh Tsvetelin Pankov.

Provocations by the participants and police

The municipality explained that mismatches of torchlight procession means that the police have the right at any time to intervene in it. Intervention, of course, bound by non-public order by the assembled people.

"Last year I tried one trick to disrupt the event. Then banned the collection of a group of people in a particular place. However, we again held a march, "said Pankov.

He said that the organizers have taken into account the possible provocations by the police. For this purpose during the march there will be strict control by the organizers. Is provided and internal security. Pankov ensure that their request will be no provocations.

"If the participants in the march were provoked by the police, they are obliged to protect as they see fit," stated Pankov.

Opponents of Lukovmarsh

The leader of the Metropolitan Organization BSP Kaloyan Pargov welcomed the decision taken by the Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. He described it as a moral victory for all victims of the Second World War and in particular of those who perished in the Holocaust. It BSP insisted first Lukovmarsh be banned.

"No one will stop them gather spontaneously, but will be limited actions and behavior," said Sofia Topnovini.bg Pargov.

He described Lukovmarsh as risk event, which could lead to police intervention. In his words, as the police and the National Security Agency have made submissions that could lead to excesses, which predisposes the use of more uniform during the event.

So far the Russian, American and Israeli embassy sent protest notes requesting march to be banned.

"This event is 12 years and until now no excesses. And tomorrow will emphasize the security of all Lukovmarsh as not to provoke the people around us, "he Tsvetelin Pankov.

Who is gen Hristo Lukov

General Lukov is an officer in the Bulgarian army. He participated in the First World War. He was minister of war from 1935 to 1938 From 1932 the leader of the Union of Bulgarian National Legions. This is a far-right nationalist organization.

After the start of World War II Hristo Lukov consorting with representatives of Nazi Germany. Because of its leadership position in the national legions Union is accused of trying to sell the idea of ​​the Third Reich in Bulgaria.

The general was killed on this date in 1943. The basic version of his death is that he was killed by members of the then illegal Bulgarian Communist Party, because he wanted to include Bulgaria in World War II on the side of Germany.

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Bulgarian far-right nationalists gather near Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia, Saturday, Feb. 15 2014. Hundreds of Bulgarian nationalists have marched through the capital to honor a World War II general known for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi activities, although Sofia's mayor had banned Saturday's rally, organized by the far-right Bulgarian National Union.(AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
 
Old February 14th, 2015 #3
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*So far the Russian, American and Israeli embassy sent protest notes requesting march to be banned.
Also their red/left scum puppets give acte de presence to stop the march.

 
Old February 14th, 2015 #4
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Yet the march started.

 
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