After protesters clashed with the police, security forces cleared unauthorized blockades at major intersections in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The tents of the demonstrators, who have been calling for the government to resign for almost two months, were removed overnight.
According to official reports, there were no clashes, and no one was arrested from the camps. The police acted after riots during a protest against the government in Sofia.
The tent camps, passed off as the “zone of freedom”, turned out to be hiding places for self-made firecrackers and hard objects that were thrown at the police officers who were deployed to protect parliament, as Sofia police chief Georgi Hadschiev said.
126 people were arrested after the riot. 60 of them had a criminal background, it said. The organizers of the protests, the „Toxic Trio“, attributed the riots to provocateurs.
