EU to Blacklist Hezbollah as Terror Group - Report

The terror attack at the Sarafovo airport in Burgas killed seven, including five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian bus driver, and the alleged suicide bomber. Photo by BGNES

The European Union intends to include the military wing of Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations, according to diplomatic sources speaking on condition of anonymity.

The UK has formally requested the European Union to blacklist the Lebanese Shiite militant group as a terrorist organization and the request is to be discussed in end-May, according to unnamed diplomatic sources as cited by the BGNES news agency.

Blacklisting Hezbollah as a terrorist group requires a unanimous vote by the 27 EU Member States.

In early February 2013, Bulgaria's then-Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov declared that the investigation of the July 18, 2012 bus bombing at the airport in Burgas had led to the "well-grounded assumption" that two individuals with links to Hezbollah had been involved in the attack.

The terror attack at the Sarafovo airport in Burgas killed seven, including five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian bus driver, and the alleged suicide bomber.

The investigation into this case continues.

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