Bulgarian Ethnic Turkish Party Approaches EP over Police Brutality

The Deputy Chair of the ethnic Turkish party DPS, Lyutvi Mestan, has announced that the European Parliament and foreign media have already been informed about the case of the police brutality in the city of Kardzhali. Photo by BGNES

Bulgarian ethnic Turkish party DPS has announced it will inform the European Parliament for the incident in the city of Kardzhali where police officers have broken in and beaten a family “by mistake”.

DPS have been unsatisfied with the explanation by Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov in the Parliament Wednesday.

Tsvetanov has explained that the son of the beaten family has been involved in the procure activities by the real police's target, the pimp Dzhem Mustafa.

The Deputy Chair of DPS, Lyutvi Mestan, has announced that his party has decided to ask again all the questions that have not been answered by Tsvetanov in a Parliamentary question under the procedure for Parliamentary control.

The questions will include whether there have been a prosecution's order for entering the family's home, whether the operation's plan have included entering this specific home, whether the minister has received a report on the operation and whether the report includes a medical certificate for committed violence.

Other questions will ask whether the father, Sabahatin Mustafov, has been bribed to not make the entering public, whether Tsvetanov agrees with Tuesday's statement by PM Boyko Borisov that the police actions should be shameful, what does the term “full operational freedom” include and what actions will be taken against the police officers.

Mestan has added that the need for a Parliamentary committee to investigate the case will be discussed after Tsvetanov asnwers the questions.

Remzi Osman, a DPS MP from Kardzhali, has stated that he was informed Saturday that a member of the municipal council of DPS in the city has also been involved in the case.

On Sunday, the MP met with the family and with the head of the district police office, who has told him that there have been a mistake and that he knows that the boy's glasses have been broken.

According to Osman, the regional police head did not know about the beaten girl and that the police have bribed the family in order not to make the incident public.

“I decided to talk to the interior minister on Monday. At the meeting, I asked for a psychologist for the girl and he agreed. I asked for other things as well,” Osman said.

However, in his words, the situation in the Parliament on Wednesday was different.

“Because of the behavior of the GERB MPs, this case, containing photos, medical certificates and a document from a psychologist, will leave the country,” Osman said, adding that foreign media, as well as representatives of the European Parliament, have already been informed about the case.

The Bulgarian socialists have also expressed their dissatisfaction with Tsvetanov's explanations in the Parliament.

“We are witnesses of a bad-directed action with some erotic moments. I understood all about the prostitutes and their rates, but I did not understand whether there was a prosecution's order for entering the home and whether there was a reason for the beating of these citizens,” said the socialist Kiril Dobrev.

He added that it was a matter of style and approach of governing.

“Since we have a PM who beats his own candidate for son-in-law and that remains unnoticed, why are you surprised that the police is beating too,” Dobrev commented, referring to Borisov's statement that he has once beaten his daughter's boyfriend because “he made her cry”.

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