Petar “The Feathers” Nizamov, allegedly part of a vigilante group that illegally detained migrants near the Bulgarian border, has been arrested, Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov said on April 12.
Nizamov is being held in 24-hour detention and his home and car have been searched, Tsatsarov told reporters, a day after prosecutors in the town of Malko Turnovo announced that they had begun a pre-trial investigation into an incident of illegal detention.
The arrest is the latest episode to follow the posting online of amateur video depicting the capture of migrants, said to be from Afghanistan.
The vigilante group forced the migrants to the ground, bound their wrists and shouted at them in broken English to “go (to) Turkey”.
While numerous Bulgarian-language media reports erroneously have referred to the actions of the vigilante group, a self-styled “volunteer squad” border patrol, as “citizens’ arrests”, Tsatsarov pointed out to reporters that the concept of a “citizen’s arrest” does not exist in Bulgarian law.
The perpetrators would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, he said...
[sofiaglobe.com]
12/4/16
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Nizamov is being held in 24-hour detention and his home and car have been searched, Tsatsarov told reporters, a day after prosecutors in the town of Malko Turnovo announced that they had begun a pre-trial investigation into an incident of illegal detention.
The arrest is the latest episode to follow the posting online of amateur video depicting the capture of migrants, said to be from Afghanistan.
The vigilante group forced the migrants to the ground, bound their wrists and shouted at them in broken English to “go (to) Turkey”.
While numerous Bulgarian-language media reports erroneously have referred to the actions of the vigilante group, a self-styled “volunteer squad” border patrol, as “citizens’ arrests”, Tsatsarov pointed out to reporters that the concept of a “citizen’s arrest” does not exist in Bulgarian law.
The perpetrators would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, he said...
[sofiaglobe.com]
12/4/16
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