Following the release of worrying video footage from July 2020, the Bulgarian prosecution is investing the political violence during last year’s protest besides denying these cases in the first place. Before its official release on the media and YouTube, the video was presented in the Bulgarian Parliament, and four of the police officers that committed violence were charged. The first to react to the footage were the parties that gained political momentum during the 2020-2021 protests, accusing the representatives of the former ruling party GERB, and the former prime minister, of non-intervention and covering the evidence of deliberate violence. The action of police brutality was also condemned by the new composition of the ruling party in the Bulgarian Parliament, among which the Parliament’s speaker. Read more here.
Source: Balkan Insight