PROSECUTION TO DEMAND PERMANENT ARREST OVER ALLEGATIONS IN RADICAL ISLAM

8 people from the South Bulgarian towns of Pazardzhik, Plovdiv and Asenovgrad were charged for alleged involvement in a group propagating anti-democratic ideology, announced Bulgaria’s Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassation on 31st of March.

Six men were arrested and taken to Pazarzhik for interviews and European arrest warrants were issued for another two suspects who were still being sought.

The arrests are part of an investigation that began with an antiterrorist operation of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security in November 2014, in which the Muslim leader in the Roma neighborhood in Pazardzhik, Ahmed Musa, and six other men were arrested over promoting radical ideology.

The detained men are alleged in involvement in a group that propagates religious and extremist ideology and war. They were arrested for 72 hours. The Prosecutor’s Office will demand permanent arrest.