Bulgaria prevents annual neo-Nazi march

Via European Jewish Press:

The annual torch-lit Lukov march is named after Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov,
founder of the pro-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions movement, which
supported the deportation to Treblinka of more than 11,000 Jews

The Bulgarian government has prevented an annual neo-Nazi march in Sofia, the country’s capital. The march was to take place last weekend.

The annual torch-lit Lukov march is named after Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov, founder of the pro-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions movement, which supported the deportation to Treblinka of more than 11,000 Jews from territories controlled by Bulgaria in Macedonia, northern Greece and eastern Serbia.

Lukov was responsible for a Bulgarian law, based on the 1935 Nuremberg Laws in Germany, that stripped Jews of their civil rights. He was assassinated in 1943 by Communist partisans.

The Lukov demonstration usually draws thousands of neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists.

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that the far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at Lukov’s home.

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