24 Chasa

A tragic incident unfolded in the "Svoboda" neighborhood of Sofia, Bulgaria, as a mentally ill man has been detained for allegedly taking the life of his 94-year-old aunt, according to a report by Nova TV. The motives behind this distressing crime are currently under investigation.

26-year old tourist from the UK is in medical coma after falling from a balcony on the sixth floor of a hotel in Sunny Beach, 24 Chasa reports.

The young woman arrived on vacation in Bulgaria with her boyfriend on 27th July. The incident happened on 31th July. The injured woman has severe head injury and is in intensive care in the hospital in Burgas, according to Darik. 

The caretaker cabinet of Bulgaria ponders a move to cut administrative fees paid by businesses, daily 24 Chasa reports, citing sources.

The move will help save tens of millions in expenses and will be aimed at putting an end to alleged violations on behalf of the Registry Agency, according to the sources.

Residents of northwestern Bulgaria are gathering signatures in a petition for a referendum on whether a tunnel should be built under the Petrohan mountain pass.

Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova says she has accepted the resignation of her deputy Mariya Boyadzhiyska, who was in charge of environmental issues.

Boyadzhiyska declared she was stepping down earlier this week, on Tuesday, daily 24 Chasa quotes Fandakova as saying.

"We talked, I tried to talk her out of it, but she has personal reasons to step down."

Bulgaria is negotiating the opening of an automotive assembly plant on its soil, the investment promotion agency's head has said.

"We are in talks with a major German company [to convince it] to begin assembling cars in Bulgaria," Stamen Yanev, chair of InvestBulgaria Agency, has told daily 24 Chasa in an interview.

One of Bulgaria night's biggest mass-circulation dailies has said a team of three journalists working for it has been barred from entering the country.

The development reportedly occurred on Thursday evening, when police, after seeing a camera and a laptop in the team's car, told them they needed "permission from the Foreign Ministry".

Only several names of Bulgarian entrepreneurs have surfaced out of the Panama Papers so far, three days after the affair emerged exposing global offshore dealings that involve politicians, celebrities and business people from around the world.

There are two bidders to acquire Bulgaria's Vivacom, in an auction that started Thursday morning and has been going on for more than 12 hours.

Bulgarian daily 24 Chasa wrote Thursday evening it was "nearly a hundred percent certain" the two candidates were Spas Rusev (a Bulgarian) and Panos Germanos (a Greek citizen who joined forces with hedge fund Third Point).

The Sofia City Court (SCC) has ruled nationalist leader Volen Siderov and a party member Desislav Chukolov should be released on bail only several hours after having been detained on Tuesday.

Siderov and Chukolov are facing charges of hooliganism. They were indicted and taken into custody for 72 hours upon arrival at the Sofia Investigation Office on Tuesday.