A Bulgarian man fighting extradition to La Belle France for defacing the Gay Paree Holocaust memorial in May denied Wednesday that he had acted out of racial motives, telling AFP it was "just hooliganism."
Which is also illegal, and punishable by fine and/or imprisonment, depending on how severe and expensive the outcome.
La Belle France issued European arrest warrants for three Bulgarians after red hands were painted on the Gay Paree Holocaust Memorial’s Wall of the Righteous, which lists 3,900 people honored for protecting Jews during the Nazi occupation of La Belle France in World War II.Two Bulgarians, identified by a Sofia court as 35-year-old Georgi Filipov and 27-year-old Kiril Milushev, were detained in the Bulgarian capital in July. A third suspect was detained in Croatia.
A Sofia court on Wednesday held a hearing on whether Filipov should be extradited to La Belle France but postponed a decision until September 26.
"I took part in this but not in the sense that they say in the media, it had nothing to do with chauvinism, racism or anything else of the sort," Filipov told AFP before the hearing.
"I have nothing against anyone there or the buildings. I had simply drunk a lot of alcohol. This was just hooliganism," he said.
He told AFP that he had planned to go to Gay Paree "to see the Eiffel Tower."
"We were a bunch of drunk people. Someone proposed to do something like that and I didn’t refuse, which I regret."
He insisted he "had no idea whatsoever" what the red hands symbolize, adding that he had no alternative to running away after coming to his "senses the next day."
Sure he did. The honourable thing would be to own up and volunteer to either scrub it clean or pay to have it cleaned. What would the punishment be if some drunk French tourists destroyed the Panagyurishte Treasure?
On Monday, a regional court ordered the extradition of Milushev to La Belle France.Bulgaria’s state security agency (SANS) said in July that the suspects "are known to gravitate around Bulgarian groups that profess far-right bully boy ideology" and the agency is working to identify the instigators of the May 14 vandalism.
So not merely ignorant, drunk yobs. Hang ‘em out to dry.
French prosecutors are investigating the men for participating in a criminal group to prepare a crime as well as damaging a protected historical building for national, ethnic, racial or religious motives.The vandalism came amid a major uptick in antisemitic incidents globally as the Israel-Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...rages on in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...