site.btaCivilian Police Search Offices of Bosilegrad Culture and Information Centre

A group of civilian police officers and inspectors from Surdulica Municipality conducted a search of the Bosilegrad Culture and Information Centre on the Day of the Western Outlands, November 8. Wednesday's search was ordered by the Supreme Court in Vranje within preliminary proceedings.

The police confiscated 23 books of Bulgarian writer, poet, and diplomat Edvin Sugarev. In the last months, several attempts to get Sugarev's "Elegy for the Kraishte" into Serbia were stopped.

Bosilegrad Culture and Information Centre head Ivan Nikolov commented that the sudden search of the Centre's offices by six civilian police officers from Vranje was highly surprising and incomprehensible. Officially, the search was aimed at gathering evidence and items important for criminal proceedings for instigating national, racial, and religious hatred and intolerance.

The diplomatic representations of Bulgaria in Serbia have been informed of these events, which occurred only several hours before Sugarev's book promotion at the Bosilegrad Culture and Information Centre scheduled for Wednesday evening.