Father Pankratii, father superior of Glozhene Monastery, in the Stara Planina mountain-range near the town of Teteven, was charged with setting property on fire that did not belong to him and hooliganism, Bulgarian Focus news agency quoted prosecutor Nikolai Ponchev on August 4 2008.

Pankratii was detained for 72 hours on August 3 after lighting premises of the monastery twice in the course of six hours.
 
According to the police, at about 20 minutes after midnight on August 3, police-officers responded to a tip-off about a fire that had started in the monastery.

When policemen arrived at the scene, they found that the 50-year-old father Pankratii had been in an argument with a group of visitors. So, as a result, he set the office of the monastery on fire.

According to Bulgarian-language news website mediapool.bg, the father even fired a shot with an eight-millimetre Zaza gun and fled the scene in his car in the direction of the nearby Golyam Izvor village.

Minutes later, he set the vehicle on fire and left it in Predela vicinity. The vehicle was completely burnt out, police said.

At about 6am on August 3, father Pankratii came back to the monastery and set the office premises on fire for the second time. Both fires were quickly put out by local firefighters and did not cause a lot of damage.