Sofia Police

Sofia. Sofia police are searching for the perpetrators of an attempted robbery of a petrol station, said the Ministry of the Interior press office. Around 11:30 pm last night, the police received a call, reporting a robbery at a petrol station on Tsvetan Lazarov St.

Sofia Police training will block the area around the National Palace of Culture at 20:00 on Thursday, the SDRD announced. Police officers will be evacuating in the event of a fire, as part of their preparations for the upcoming EU presidency, whose main events will be in the Palace of Culture.

Three masked and armed men attacked and robbed a collection center in Sofia's Ovcha Kupel 2 quarter on Wednesday night, the SDRD confirmed.

During the attack one of the guards was slightly injured as he was hit in the head. The doctors' teams have given him first aid but have not accepted him for treatment in a hospital.

The Sofia police will intensify the security in the area around  Borisova garden, reported BTV.

This became clear after the extraordinary meeting last night for the two consecutive beatings in this area.

A taxi driver was wounded in the abdomen on Saturday evening after an unknown perpetrator fired at him in the neighborhood of Nadezhda, Sofia.

The incident occurred around 18:30 local time (EET) as the driver was to carry out an order in Nadezhda.

The injured man was taken to hospital.

An unknown perpetrator fired shots at a bus moving along Line 76 in Sofia on Monday, police and media report.

No-one was hurt in the incident, but windows of the bus were broken by the shots.

Police are looking into the hypothesis of hooliganism, Sofia police chief Mladen Marinov has told the Bulgarian National Television.

Increased security measures in front of diplomatic missions and institutions are now in force in Sofia, announced the director of Sofia Police Mladen Marinov, reported Focus Agency.

The measures were introduced after the incident in Berlin on Monday night when a truck hit a Christmas bazaar killing 12 people and injuring tens more.

Special security measures will be undertaken by Sofia police in relation to the upcoming nationalist marches in the centre of Sofia on Saturday evening.

The protests will be held against illegal migration.

Over 4,000 illegal migrants have been detained by Sofia police in the first 8 months of 2016, stated to BNR the Director of Sofia Directorate of Interior Affairs, Mladen Marinov.

Most of the migrants are from Afghanistan. There have been signals of attacks on women by migrants, but these signals have been checked and remain unconfirmed.

Sofia police have carried out a specialized operation targeting migrants in several parts of Bulgaria's capital, officials say.

As many as 562 people had their documents checked by police.