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Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

Mon, May 07 2012 09:28 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Two British citizens were fined for hooliganism after an incident in which they threw beer bottles, injuring people, after being barred by security guards from entering a Veliko Turnovo restaurant that had closed for the night.
 
Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported on May 6 2012 that police had arrested one of the UK citizens at the scene and took the other, who had fled, into custody later.
 
The district court in the Bulgarian town fined both men for petty hooliganism, BNR said.
 
Bulgarian-language Dnevnik commented that the incident was the latest involving "foreigners with a taste for alcohol" and said that British youth were "particularly active" in drunken brawls in Bulgaria.
 
Tourists regularly filled the charge sheets of local police in resorts in Bulgaria, Dnevnik said, citing the 2005 case of Michael Shields who was found guilty by Bulgarian courts of having severely assaulted a bartender at the Black Sea resort of Golden Sands by hitting him on the head with a paving stone. Shields was transferred to the UK where authorities gave him a pardon.
 
There had been similar incidents resulting in fines for hooliganism in recent years in Bansko, Pamporovo and Varna, Dnevnik said.
 

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