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Democratic Bulgaria has accused Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova of becoming an accessory to police violence against protesters for her inaction.
In a statement on behalf of the group at the opening of the SOC’s first fall session, Democrats in local parliament asked:
“Is it true that people from the Delta Guard structures, who also guarded the last GERB event, as well as from the IPON company created by Boyko Borisov, were used to protect the protests?”
Do you think it is correct, Madam Mayor, that the protests are guarded by people with inscriptions such as “One shot, one murder, I decide, without regret” on their uniforms? Is this the new motto of the capital?
Can it be called a European capital in which the police spray hot water and beat journalists? Is this what the open-minded municipality looks like?
Here is the text of the full position:
Fandakova – the silent accomplice of police violence
How many protesters should be sprayed with hot spray? How many citizens and journalists should be charged? How many people with police violence have to appear in the media and on social networks for the mayor of the capital to remember to ask the security guards for an explanation? Where is the dividing line between loyalty to the party and debt to the law and the citizens? Will the vice president of GERB remember that he is mayor of the capital?
Obviously, we must remember that the mayor of the capital has important powers under the Law of Assemblies, Rallies and Demonstrations. And on the protection of public order.
During all these more than two months of protests against Borisov and Geshev, we have not seen you, Ms. Fandakova, on the side of the citizens, protesters or not. We didn’t see you among the people. We have not seen him exercise any of his legal powers in relation to the protests. We didn’t see you punish agitators with provocateurs. We have seen him once again abdicate his functions as mayor in favor of the party he represents. And the protesters were left to the arbitrariness of the apparently uncontrollable forces of order, who demonstrated that the only order they knew how to impose was the one behind the scenes.
Ms. Fandakova, you need to answer several important questions.
Is it true that people from the Delta Guard structures, who also guarded the last GERB event, as well as from the IPON company created by Boyko Borisov, were used to guard the protests?
Do you think it is correct, Madam Mayor, that the protests are guarded by people with inscriptions such as “One shot, one murder, I decide, without regret” on their uniforms? Is this the new motto of the capital?
Can it be called a European capital in which the police spray hot water and beat journalists? Is this the open-minded municipality?
By your inaction, by your unwillingness to ensure the safety of the protests, you become an accomplice of the absolutely unacceptable police violence that is committed in the territory of the city that was entrusted to you.
Ms. Fandakova, let us remind you that you are the mayor of all the citizens of Sofia, not just the 208,000 who voted for you in the last election. You are even the mayor of the protesters against the party of which you are vice president.
And like it or not, you have to take care of their safety and their civil rights. It is necessary, because the law dictates it. And because the lessons of history, which he reminds us every September 9 since 1944, are absolutely clear: a government based on force by force is not only doomed to collapse, it will remain a disgrace. in the history of Bulgaria.
