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Plovdiv police arrest 21 people at a Halloween party

Mon, Nov 02 2009 10:12 CET

byNick Iliev

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Plovdiv police arrest 21 people at a Halloween party

Police in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, arrested 21 people - 17 men and four women - at a Halloween party early on November 1 2009, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said.

The youths were celebrating Halloween at the Fourteenth Exhibition Palace when a squad of police officers suddenly burst in and initiated systematic checks for illegal substances.

The 21 arrested were aged between 16 and 24 and hailed from Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Dimitrovgrad. They were found in possession of mainly marijuana, ecstasy and hash, and were detained for 24 hours.

"The drugs we seized predominantly consisted of weed, amphetamines and pills. The youths are in the police station and 21 separate charges are being currently filed against them," said a spokesperson from Plovdiv police station, quoted by BNT.

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Anonymous a Tue, Nov 03 2009 18:08 CET
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Valeri, this is how holidays work. Halloween started in Ireland. The US is the biggest known celebrator. With a county who has an equal number of residents living outside the country as live IN the country, the 'culture' is highly permeable. remember that more Bulgarians live in the Halloween-celebrating city of Chicago than in the "bulgarian cultural" cities of Ploviv AND Varna and every other city in Bulgaria other than Sofia. And you still wonder why...

Anonymous Valeri Mon, Nov 02 2009 23:28 CET
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I can't believe that holidays like that are permeating the culture.
What's next - thanksgiving?


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