The political crisis: last night’s clashes were ordered by Geshev and Borisov, announced Trio – Politics

The tent camps were removed at night because they were used as cover to store materials to attack protesting police. This was announced this morning in a briefing by Georgi Hadjiev, director of the Ministry of the Interior. He announced that a “Molotov” cocktail had been found in a tent in Independence Square, which was probably prepared for an attack on the police.

“The tent camps widely advertised as a free form of protest proved to be a very good cover for storing improvised explosive devices on cobblestones,” he said, adding that this was established by police video surveillance. therefore, at 3 in the morning, the camps were cleared, which went smoothly.

The price of civil peace yesterday was 80 policemen injured, one with a fractured right arm, others with burns to the face, with lacerations, concluded after a tense day and already in a protest yesterday. He announced that, contrary to various complaints, the police had used “spray paper”. “We witnessed a brutal attack, part of which was against the police. At night, for hours, the police fired fireworks, stones, metal pipes, cobblestones, homemade bombs, ”he said.

126 people were arrested yesterday “for assault on police officers” and 60 have criminal records, Hadjiev added.

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