On 14th of March, Sofia City Court confirmed two plea bargains with the leader of Bulgaria’s Nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, in which he pleaded guilty to hooliganism charges. He was sentenced to 9 month of probation.
One of the cases in which Siderov pleaded guilty was related to an incident in the town of Batak, in May 2011, when he and other Ataka members disrupted a concert celebrating an anniversary of the April uprising. The other incident was the intrusion of Siderov and another Ataka MP, Dessislav Chukolov, on students in the National Academy of Film and Theatre Arts in Sofia, on 23rd of October 2015. Siderov pleaded guilty to hooliganism charges in relation to an attempt to grab the phone of a student, who was filming their behaviour during the incident.
In relation to the same incident, Ataka MP Dessislav Chukolov was given 6 months of probation and deduction form his salary for the same period.
The sentences comes into effect immediately and the enforcement begins as of 15th of March. The probation orders are not subject to appeal or protest. In addition to the requirement for permanent address registration and meetings with a probation officer, the probation also includes 13% deduction from Siderov’s monthly salary, for a period of 9 month.
The court rejected the third plea bargain, related to the incident of confrontation with a reporter from Skat television in front of the building of Bulgaria’s Parliament in 2013.
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