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Protests in the country continue after the “Great People’s Uprising” on September 2. Last night, protesters in Sofia symbolically made a two-tent camp at Orlov Most, which does not block traffic. Protesters in Plovdiv sought to contact the Speaker of the National Assembly Tsveta Karayancheva, who was there to present the “award to the winners of the team competition of the traditional” March 8 “shooting tournament for women, Ministry employees. of the Interior, the Ministry of defense and security services, “said the parliament’s press office.
Of ACTS We contacted actor Daniel Mahailov – Vikenti to see first-hand what happened last night in Plovdiv. He is one of the faces of the protest in Plovdiv and participated in the expression of mass discontent last night. What Vikenti told us about the intended encounter with Karayancheva, about her own experiences during the September 2 protest, about her fellow citizens, about the night visit to “Pirogov” and about her conversation with a 15-year-old soccer fan, was read in the following lines:
– What is the story with Karayancheva?
“There was a shooting award.” We wanted to go and show him our national love. We were once again cordoned off by the police, a live chain stopped us at the Pedestrian Bridge.
“The hotel where the awards ceremony was held is on the other side of the bridge, isn’t it?”
“Yes, the hotel is on the other side of the pedestrian bridge.” We did not block boulevards, the police stopped us on a pedestrian bridge. This is a violation of the law.
We were not allowed to pass, but we turned around. Half of the protesters took a different route at first. Since apparently all the Plovdiv police are in Sofia, yesterday the police were boys, I guess still unfinished. Until now I had not seen them at the Plovdiv protests.
We managed to get to the hotel by the other route. We stayed with the police on the Pedestrian Bridge for about 20 minutes, but when we realized that we would not cross there, we took another route, exited the boulevard, stopped the traffic and headed to the hotel. We got there and there was a little discussion with the hotel security because one of the protesters was at the door. Right across from the main entrance was the cocktail lounge where the awards ceremony was taking place. We wanted to know if Karayancheva was still inside.
The guards tried to push the boy who was standing in the doorway. There was a slight tension, but no insults, just questions like “What are you doing?” There was no aggression. Then the guards stepped back, closed the doors, they had a photocell inside.
Our idea was to see if Karayancheva was there and if she wasn’t, just go.
“Did someone tell you if she was there or not?”
“No, but there was a government car with a flag outside.” One of the organizers and I went through the restaurant and went inside. We have a glass of water; as customers, there was nothing to tell us. We entered, we went to the hall where the event took place, there was weight loss, there were about 20 people, but Karayancheva was not there, neither she nor the mayor of Plovdiv.
We had no intention of going to the hotel. At first we thought about going in front of the hotel when she had to arrive, but we decided not to let that happen. One child, however, did not understand. He went alone, asked for his resignation several times and was arrested. He said he did not know if the civilian police detained him or the NSO officers. He said they weren’t in uniform. They took him to the Third District.
The third district is at the same address as the hotel. That’s why the police pulled out the number they were blocking us from going to the district police station.
– Why did you decide to look for Tsveta Karayancheva?
– Express the love of our people. The day before in Sofia we could not see a single person from the state, they were in hiding. We were looking for contact.
– You and the group from Plovdiv were in Sofia on September 2, right?
– Yes, we were about 350 people from Plovdiv.
– How did you get transported?
– In cars and trains.
“Did you stay until the night?”
– I stayed until 01:00 in the protest, around 02:30 we left for Plovdiv from “Pirogov”. There was a boy from Plovdiv who was hit on the head during the protest.
– What was he hit with?
“I don’t know with what.” They blindfolded him on the spot in the ambulance, where he was told that a bomb had exploded. He himself does not remember what happened, he lost consciousness. Pirogov said that this could not happen with a bomb. There are four points, no scalding.
“It’s OK now?”
– Oh yes – he was at the protest again yesterday.
– What are your observations of the protest of September 2, of the aggression?
– These were obviously provocative, they were agitators. He was in the front rows. I talked to a guy, I saw that he was a little more masked and I asked him directly: “What team are you a fan of?” He said: “Levski Sofia”. I asked him how old he was, he said he was 15, and then he said, “This is the dumbest protest I’ve ever been called to.”
Then a boy brought me a big yellow bag; I don’t know how it happened to the police. It was filled with liquid-filled balloons. I asked him what it was, he said, “warm water and oil.” I’m not sure if that was it.
A little later, they doused my legs with gasoline. Apparently they were trying to light a Molotov cocktail. I stepped aside and went to wash up.
Before that, not a single bomb exploded all day. We had several attempts to invade, but without aggression from the protesters, we only pressed with our bodies, no one attacked a policeman during the day. And the police weren’t that aggressive, they just sprayed us with hot spray.
There was a situation with a boy from Plovdiv, who was detained on a bus. We went around the bus, we sat around it, this was the group from Plovdiv and they let the boy go. From there, we have images of a police officer’s helmet bearing the emblem of IPON, the security company, which was indirectly owned by Boyko Borissov.
I’m not sure if the cops were really cops. There were a lot of people with tattoos, with beards. In the morning I read the paragraphs; they have no right to do so. I have a long beard, there were “policemen” with twice a beard. These were not police officers.
My friend had her food box checked at the entrance of the protest to see if she had anything inside. She had a backpack, I didn’t carry it and they didn’t search me. Some boys said they had also searched their pockets. I looked and checked all the backpacks, they wouldn’t let me in with glass bottles, if someone brought jugs, they had to be open. There were so many bombs and fireworks that this thing had to be imported in boxes, there were so many. Everything was terribly misdirected. They disbanded the crowd in less than 20 minutes. Why did they have to endure bombs for two hours?
It was very foolish of him to sacrifice the police to make the protesters bad. They defeated the town in 10-15 minutes, everything could have ended with the fifth bomb, instead of waiting two hours, pulling out the water cannons. Very poorly organized.
– What are you going to cook in Plovdiv in the next few days?
– On September 6 – Union Day, in the city of Union we are preparing a large-scale event. We are waiting for people from Sofia and from all over Bulgaria, as it was on September 2nd in Sofia. The procession is announced for 7:00 p.m.
Now I remember something interesting: I went on Sunday night to spend the night at Eagle Bridge for support. At the Sunday protest, Professor Minekov gave me a few words to say, because he knows me, he came to Plovdiv every week. I introduced myself as an actor because I do that, and some people said, “I’ve been waiting 53 days for an actor to tell two stories!” One lady even said that because of this inaction of the actors she would stop going to the theater.
Plovdiv Bulgaria
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