[Regnum] In the center of Sofia, the police, by order of the authorities, stopped an attempt to hold a neo-Nazi march, the Bulgarian newspaper The Sofia Globe wrote on February 17.Bulgarian police did not allow a neo-Nazi march to take place in Sofia
“Sofia police, on the orders of Mayor Vasil Terziev, blocked the evening Lukov March, an annual procession in honor of Hristo Lukov, who was the leader of the neo-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s and 1940s,” the authors wrote.
The article states that a large group of people began to gather at 17:00 (16:00 Moscow time) in the central part of the Bulgarian capital for a torchlight procession, despite the lack of permission from the municipality to hold the event on city streets.
As Regnum reported, a torchlight procession in honor of General Lukov, who supported Nazi Germany during World War II and was killed by the anti-fascist resistance, has taken place in Sofia every year since 2003.
In 2021, in Sofia, reinforced police forces almost completely blocked the central part of the city and other gathering places of neo-Nazis, preventing the rally from taking place. They were only allowed to lay flowers at the memorial plaque on the house where General Hristo Lukov lived. Many politicians and public figures in the country expressed their support for the actions of law enforcement agencies.