Parliament to Have Special Sitting on Police Brutality Caught on Tape during anti-Government Protests Last Summer

In a statement on Saturday National
Assembly Chair Iva Miteva said she will convene an extraordinary parliamentary sitting on August 17 in connection with a video
of police brutality during last year's anti-government protests.
The video, shown in Parliament on Friday, caused shock and a wave of comments both on social networks and among politicians,
who on Saturday described the footage as "harrowing" and called for those to blame to be held accountable.
An ad hoc committee probing possible police brutality during the2020 protests against the previous government and against
corruption, screened Friday security camera footage showing police  kicking and punching detained protestors by the government building in central Sofia. Lawyers and magistrateshave been searching for more than a year to find exactly this
footage from the night of July 10, 2020 from a security camera of the National Protection Service.
National Protection Service chief Emil Tonev had denied havingany security camera footage from that night and that spot. His
deputy subsequently said that they can only give the video tothe national security authorities. This video was found sitting
in a drawer in a Sofia Directorate of the Interior office and was made available to the ad hoc committee after the interference of caretaker Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov.
Nikolai Hadzhigenov MP of Rise Up BG! Here We Come!, who chairs the ad hoc committee, but before being elected to Parliament was the legal representative of a protestor who complained of police violence, said that whoever is responsible for concealing
 the video, was an accomplice in a crime. He said President Rumen Radev and caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev owe an
answer about how long...