A pajama walk of the natural lunatics!

CARNIVAL (translation of blog by Ana Blagova)
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GUESS WHO’S THE LUNATIC?

First mass walk of the natural lunatics in pajamas
A 22-year-old girl was dragged and almost stripped down by ungrounded actions of the aggressive law-enforcement authorities

Arbitrary police actions against protesters in front of the National Television failed to disturb the media

IN PAJAMAS ON MONDAY AS A SIGN OF SOLIDARITY!

Four young people were unlawfully arrested after police arbitrariness right in front of the building of the National Television, which event failed to make any impression on the “national media”!

The walking people were armed only with their pajamas, such as was the idea of the gathering, which was in no way a meeting or a protest but a symbolical act to demonstrate what became clear in the past few months - that lunatics in this country, obviously, are we, who do not measure it in levs per square meter or in euro in the pocket of an official.


WE ARE ALSO SURPRISED WITH THE FACT THAT A TAXI PROTEST WAS MADE LEGAL WITH A BACK DATE WHILE A PEACEFUL PAJAMA STROLL ENDED IN ARREST AND VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUNG PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY LOVE NATURE


[imgleft">pizhami_policiq.jpg[/imgleft">This action meant to attract the attention of the Sofia public in a positive and fun way and express the walkers’ one simple need: the need of a special reserve within the country - a place in which their rights to clean environment are guaranteed as the government has guaranteed the rights of investors in Bulgaria.
The participants were from 2 to 60 years of age. The spontaneous carnival splashed on the city streets with music and positive vibrations without obstructing the traffic.
In the light of this, Let’s save Irakli wishes to state clearly that the information published in the press release of The Ministry of the Interior claiming that “these people desired to attack the building of the National Television” is a flagrant, ridiculous and unintelligent lie. Against it there stand the witnesses of the tens of present people whose photo and camera footage has documented the police’s aggression against ordinary Bulgarian citizens – were they “crazy”.
The institution meant to protect the rights of the citizens violated them before the eyes of everyone.
A 22-year old girl (Ana Blagova) was dragged on the pavement by four policemen, her clothes were almost taken of, and she was called “dumb and illiterate”.
With rude verbal offenses and physically aggressive actions the representatives of the law also took in, without any provocation on their part, Alexander Alexiev (26), Nadejda Maximova (26) and Ivaylo Stoimenov (27), coordinator of the UN Association in Bulgaria.
When the four policemen approached and started pushing and pulling him, Ivaylo was talking on his phone – nothing illegal, we believe, and certainly nothing to deserve the verbally aggressive definitions of “slug” and “scum”, that were used on him by the police.
Ana was called “dumb and illiterate” by the authorities – without a doubt an adequate classification for a 22-year-old student of Psychology in Sofia University.
Everyone who knows the arrested is absolutely convinced of the falsity of MI’s claim about their “explicitly aggressive behavior.”
While in custody, the four were pressed to sign declarations that their rights have been read and that they waive their right to medical assistance, even thought they weren’t informed of he options of either. At Ana’s refusal to sign, she was cuffed to the line where they bond criminals - and innocents, obviously.
When the other peaceful marchers in pajamas asked when the improperly arrested will be released, a policeman who presented himself as Sgt. Zhetchev replied, “When their sheets redden from beating!” (referring to Nadya Maximova’s outfit who was dressed as a ghost).
The aggression exercised on Bulgaria’s civil society and the people who love nature is unacceptable and does not respond to our standards of quality of life and the observation of human rights. Such behavior is characteristic of barbarian regimes, and not of a state that claims to be European.
We are also bewildered by the fact that a taxis’ protest was legalized with a back date, while a peaceful stroll in pajamas resulted in arrests and violence against young people who simply love Bulgarian nature.
All of this has crossed the limits of our civil patience.
We don’t think that the resignation of the Minister of the Interior Rumen Petkov and all Bulgarian ministers who allowed Bulgarian nature to be sentenced to death on Thursday with their decision to exclude emblematic places such as Trigrad, Irakli, Pirin, Melnik the Roupis and Sredna Gora and many more from NATURA 2000 network, will resolve all the problems that arise from it. But this is the least they can do to leave the dirty game they have started with a shred of dignity.

Pictures of the event