/ world in the present day information/ The Chairman of the BSP – Sofia submits for a vote within the SOS an thought of an Initiative Committee, composed of eminent Bulgarian professors, diplomats and public figures
The chairman of BSP – Sofia and the group of socialists in SOS, Kaloyan Pargov, will current for voting a report on inserting a memorial plaque to Sergey Antonov. It will happen on the assembly of the Fee for Training, Tradition, Science and Cultural Variety on Monday at 12:00 within the Metropolitan Municipality. The proposal is to position the monument on the territory of Terminal 1 of Sofia Airport.
The concept of placing up a memorial plaque accusing, after which acquitted, of the try towards Pope John Paul II, an worker of the BGA “Balkan” belongs to the Initiative Committee “Reminiscence for Sergey Antonov”. Its members embody Bulgarian public figures, cultural figures, professors, troopers and diplomats, amongst whom are overseas ministers Viktor Valkov and Lyuben Gotsev, the late professor Bozhidar Dimitrov, Vezhdi Rashidov, the two-time Olympic wrestling champion Boyan Radev, gen. Stoyan Topalov, honorary chairman of the Union of Reserve and Reserve Officers and Sergeants and others. There may be additionally help for the location of a monument to Sergei Antonov from his Italian defender Giuseppe Consolo. The funds for the creation and set up of the memorial plaque will likely be solely on the expense of the Initiative Committee “Reminiscence for Sergey Antonov”.
Along with the plaque on the territory of Sofia Airport, the Initiative Committee additionally proposes {that a} avenue within the capital be named after him. It’s about renaming “691” avenue within the “Krasno Selo” district to “Sergei Antonov”.
As is thought, the worker on the consultant workplace of BGA “Balkan” in Rome was arrested on November 25, 1982 and accused of getting, on the order of the Bulgarian state and thru the Turkish citizen Mehmed Ali Agca, on Might 13, 1982 organized the assassination try towards Pope John Paul II. Sergey Antonov, born on July 11, 1948 in Sofia, is a central determine within the almost 4-year-long “trial of the century”. Convicted unjustly in a fraudulent trial, he spent 1,223 days within the Italian jail “Rebibia”. There, the Bulgarian is beneath huge strain to admit to against the law he didn’t commit. On March 28, 1986, the Italian court docket acquitted Sergey Antonov “as a consequence of lack of ample proof”. The representatives of the Initiative Committee “Reminiscence of Sergey Antonov” are adamant that he reveals true heroism, since his eventual recognition of the complicity of our nation and its safety organs within the assault on Pope John Paul II would have weighed closely on Bulgaria for a few years. .
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