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Club Amnesia one step closer to being torn down

Wed, Jan 07 2009 20:31 CET byRene Beekman 410 Views
Club Amnesia one step closer to being torn down

The Sofia Administrative Court (SAC) threw out the request of the owners of nightclub Amnesia to reverse the order of the Directorate for National Construction Supervision (DNSK), which prohibited the use of the club, Bulgarian broadcaster Mediapool.bg said.

The club made headlines in December 2008 when Stoyan Baltov was beaten to death in front of the building in a drunken fight.

The DNSK had ordered the club to be closed and torn down as it found the construction was illegal. Club owner Excellent Ltd had a permit movable pavilions on the terrain that housed the club. Instead, a DNSK check found a massive, fixed building and ruled it illegal.
The construction of the building in the place of the movable pavilions had been approved by the chief architect of the Studentski Grad (Student Town) region, Theodor Kolarski, who has since been fired.

The club's owners appealed the decision of DNSK, arguing the closing the club would lead to material damages for the company.
The court ruled that such damages were subject to compensation and therefore could not be a reason to delay the execution of the DNSK order, thereby freeing the way for the club to be torn down.

The court's decision can be appealed with the Suppreme Administrative Court.

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