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Sofia expects Ohrid incident perpetrators to be brought to justice soon

Sofia expects Ohrid incident perpetrators to be brought to justice soon
Sofia, 24 November 2022 (MIA) - The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned, as it said, the serious crime involving a firearm shot at the Tsar Boris III club of citizens with Bulgarian awareness, that took place yesterday in Ohrid. According to the Ministry's press release, the Bulgarian consul in Bitola, Dimitar Ivanov, visited Ohrid where he established a contact with the organization's members and the competent institutions in the city involved in the case, MIA's Sofia correspondent reports. Yesterday's crime is the third attack on the Tsar Boris III club in less than two month. The previous attack happened only two days ago for which the Foreign Ministry had already sent a verbal note to North Macedonia's embassy in Skopje. Taking note of the North Macedonia's Foreign Ministry's statement, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said it "categorically refuses to accept that such severe crimes could be defined as vandalism." The Sofia authorities expect North Macedonia's competent bodies as soon as possible to take measures to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack on the Tsar Boris III club. North Macedonia’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Agnesa Rusi-Popovska will be summoned Thursday at the Foreign Ministry in Sofia where she will be handed over a strongly worded protest note following the incident in Ohrid. On Wednesday, the Macedonian Foreign Ministry condemned, what it called, the vandalism in which a glass window of the Bulgarian club in Ohrid was broken earlier in the day. "Such incidents are unacceptable, they could put at risk human lives all the while reinforcing retrograde processes that are not in line with the European integration efforts of the country,” the Ministry said in a statement.