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Bomb threat cancels concert at BSP headquarters dedicated to Donbas region

Photo: BGNES archive

People from the Bulgarian Socialist Party headquarters at 20 Positano Street in Sofia were evacuated due to a bomb threat on Saturday morning. The threat was received by email, according to which a bomb had been placed in a building on Positano Street between Knyaz Boris I and Tsar Samuil Streets. 

At 12 p.m., a charity concert for Donbas was to take place in a hall at the party headquarters. Petar Pisarski and Petar Marinov from the Atlas group, Rumen Spasov, Nelly Gergova, Dora Dikova and the Forbidden Symbols group were announced as participants. 

On Friday, the BG Elves Facebook group called on its followers to protest by driving scooters in front of the headquarters. There were not many people in the hall during the evacuation and no one was injured. The concert was not held because of the evacuation.



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