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MIXED BULGARIAN AND ROMA PATROLS TO KEEP ORDER IN BULGARIA'S CAPITAL

Tue, Aug 21 2007 15:05 CET

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Mixed patrols of Roma people and employees of the municipal security company Egida should be located in Sofia's residential districts populated by Bulgarians and Roma, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov said.

Borissov's statement came after his meeting with Tsvetelin Kunchev, leader of the Roma party Evroroma, Focus news agency reported. Kunchev himself made the proposal for the patrols.

There were already Roma people appointed in Egida, Borissov said. Roma organisations suggested another 20 people, who could work for the company.

The new Egida employees of Roma origin will be checked and will undergo all training needed, according to the laws for private security activity.

Kunchev said that such patrols would show that Bulgarians and Roma are consolidated and no "secondary factors can cause artificially tension."

On August 12 and 13 2007 controversy erupted in the Krasna Polyana residential district. Some 200 Bulgarians and Roma people took part in a mass fight. The fight was allegedly a revenge of skin heads' attacks in the district.

Borissov would order the establishment of such patrols as early ad on August 21 2007, Focus said.

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