Bulgaria: Latest Protests Against Privatizing of Railway

Politics ♦ Published: March 12, 2013; 14:26 ♦ (Vindobona)

Protesters in three cities gathered to demonstrate against the privatization of the freight division of the Bulgarian state railroads (BDZ).

Bulgaria: Latest Protests Against Privatizing of Railway / Picture: © Vindobona.org

More than 5,000 protesters gathered in Varna, a harbor town near the Black Sea, on Sunday to protest against the planned privatizing of the Bulgarian state railroad (BDZ). Demonstraters in Blagoevgrad, in the southwest of the country, battled with the police and jammed the connecting streets to Greece. In Sofia, around 1,000 citicenzs marched the streets to block the railroad tracks at…