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Police arrested eight men near Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city (Photo: dimnikolov)

Bulgaria breaks Islamist propaganda network

Bulgaria, a transit country for the so-called foreign fighters traveling to and from Iraq and Syria, is in the process of dismantling a radical Islamist propaganda network of its own.

Police near the country’s second biggest city of Plovdiv, some 130 kilometres southeast of Sofia, arrested eight men on Tuesday (31 March) on charges of belonging to a group that ”spread an antidemocratic ideology and war propaganda”.

The arrests were made in poor Roma neighbourhoods of Plovdiv and t...

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Police arrested eight men near Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city (Photo: dimnikolov)

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