Lawyers: Accused in Plovdiv’s Tobacco Town fire case is a ‘scapegoat’
Lawyers for Lyubomir Danchev, the 44-year-old man charged with arson in connection with the August 20 burning of four historic
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Prosecutor-General pledges probe into ‘investment interests’ behind Tobacco Town fire
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that the investigation into the fire that gutted an ensemble of historic tobacco warehouses in
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Plovdiv prosecutors charge man with arson of former tobacco warehouses
Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on August 22 it had arrested and pressed charges of arson against a 44-year-old man
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Culture Minister: Owners of burnt-out ‘Tobacco Town’ houses must rebuild them
As a few embers still smouldered in the Plovdiv “Tobacco Town” warehouses devastated by fire two days earlier, Bulgaria’s Culture
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Public outrage over inferno at Plovdiv’s ‘Tobacco Town’ warehouses
The huge fire that devastated historic warehouses in the Tobacco Town precinct of Plovdiv has sparked a wave of public
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Fire at historic tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv
More than 10 firefighting teams were battling a blaze in abandoned warehouses in the “Tobacco Town” precinct of Bulgaria’s second
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Plovdiv prosecutors charge chief architect, building owner, in ‘Tobacco Town’ case
The Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has laid criminal charges against the municipality’s chief architect Roumen Roussev and the representative of
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Plovdiv’s Opera Open 2016 festival opens with gala on June 18
The opening gala of the annual Opera Open festival in Plovdiv will be at the city’s Ancient Theatre on June
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Plovdiv city councillor wears burqa in protest against lack of ban
A Plovdiv municipal councillor for the nationalist VMRO party arrived at a May 26 council meeting wearing a burqa in
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