Bulgaria: Journalist Hospitalized After Assault by Security Detail Protecting Radev’s Speaker of Parliament (VIDEO)
Journalist Sonya Koltuklieva was hospitalized after a National Protection Service (NSO) officer forcefully threw her to the ground as she tried to question Parliamentary Speaker Mihaela Dotsova outside the headquarters of Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party in Sofia, according to footage circulated on social media and reports by the news agency PIK. The incident occurred on Hristo Botev Boulevard shortly after Radev held an emergency press briefing about a critical European Parliament declaration concerning his policies toward Moscow. Journalists had gathered outside the…
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