In the early hours of June 27, a drunken Irish teenager stabbed a Bulgarian man at the Slunchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) summer resort. The 34-year-old Bulgarian Marian Milanov, a manger of a restaurant called Sea Casino, was admitted to a Bourgas hospital with no danger to his life.
The incident happened at 4am when a group of Irish nationals started moving the chairs out from the restaurant. The Irish, obviously drunk according to Bourgas police department reports, demanded to be served although the restaurant was closed. When the manager made a remark, the Irish surrounded him.
First the 19-year-old Rebecca Guch hit the Bulgarian man with her purse. Her assault was followed by her 15-year-old brother John Guchs, who smashed a beer bottle on Milanovs head and after that and stabbed him with it in the abdomen.
The glass punctured the left part of his abdominal cavity and pierced his small intestines three times. He was in surgery for over an hour. Police were not able to arrest John Guch, because he is a minor. However, they are still gathering evidence to implicate his sister for hooliganism. John Guch was reported as saying that he was sorry and that he was under the influence of alcohol. On June 30, the Bourgas branch of the general-prosecutors office raised charges against Miss Guch for common assault. A court procedure is expected to be launched after all pre-trial procedures are conducted. Guch might be faced with even worst charges.
Unaccompanied by their parents, the Guches arrived in Bulgaria with a group of Dublin tourists on June 23 and are scheduled to leave the country on July 9. However, the passports of John Guch and his sister were taken into police custody.
A similar incident happened a year ago when a Michael Shields, a UK national and Liverpool FC football fan, beat Martin Georgiev, a Bulgarian bartender, in the Zlatni Pyasutsi (Golden Sands) resort near the city of Varna. Shields, then aged 19, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and is currently serving time in Sofia Central Prison.
Back then, the evidence showed that a group of drunken Liverpool fans behaved like hooligans while celebrating Liverpools win in the UEFA championship final against AC Milan in Istanbul, and attacked Georgiev without reason.
Death was prevented by doctors immediate actions after Shields hit the bartenders head with a big stone, smashing his skull. Later, the court reduced the sentence to 10 years, but increased the size of compensation Shields had to pay.
