Bulgaria has identified a dual Lebanese-French citizen as the alleged culprit in the suicide bombing of a bus containing Israeli tourists two years ago. The Bulgarian prosecutor’s office and the national security agency said Friday in a joint statement Friday that the alleged bomber was 23-year-old Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, who was born in Lebanon, the…
“Death to Jews” and a swastika were painted on the notice board of the Central Synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria. The vandalism took place on June 4, the first day of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, the Sofia Globe reported. Security cameras located outside of the synagogue recorded the vandalism; the recordings were turned over to…
Bulgaria’s Interior Minister said he is certain that the Hezbollah terrorist organization was behind the bombing of a tour bus in Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver. “All traces lead there,” Tsvetlin Yovchev told journalists Monday, according to the Sofia News Agency. “What can we prove in court, is another matter….
Bulgarian police identified a Lebanese-Canadian man as the bomber of an Israeli tour bus. The identification came from DNA evidence connected to the July 2012 attack at the Burgas airport on a bus full of Israeli tourists. Five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver were killed. The DNA belongs to Hassan El Hajj Hassan,…
Israel’s ambassador in Sofia asked Bulgarian authorities to ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia. Shaul Kamisa-Raz made the request in a letter to Bulgarian government officials with copies to mayors of major cities, the Sofia Globe news website reported Wednesday. He asked whether there were legal ways to ban the sale and, if not, whether…
A Jewish group and a liberal party in Bulgaria have condemned a march to honor an anti-Semitic general from the 1930s. The Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms have protested the Lukov March planned for February 15, according to the Sofia Globe. The torchlight procession will honor…
Bulgaria intends to put suspects in a bus bombing that killed five Israelis on trial early next year, even if they have to be judged in absentia, the country’s chief prosecutor said on Thursday. Bulgarian authorities have named two men of Lebanese origin as suspects and said it believed the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim militant group…
A man suspected of organising a bus bombing in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas last year flew to Lebanon two days before the attack that killed five Israelis and their driver, Polish news website tvn24.pl reported. Bulgaria said last month it believed the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah was behind the July 18, 2012,…
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