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After the case of 18-year-old Deborah Mihailova – a new wave of reports of startling cases of domestic violence throughout the country. Against this background, MPs from the parliamentary legal committee interrupted their summer vacation to vote on urgent legislative changes. They accepted that the intimate relationship was equated to the cases of conjugal partnership and cohabitation without marriage, under whose protection cases of domestic violence fell. More serious punishments were also voted for the infliction of light and medium bodily harm.
In Vidin, a 19-year-old beat and cut his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend’s hair, despite having a restraining order. She said that the young man took her to his home against her will. There he hit and kicked her all over her body. He took a picture of her before cutting her hair with scissors to remember how she looked with long hair.
22-year-old Slavka Slavcheva told about the horror she experienced in the last few days.
“Before he cut my hair, he beat me up. He took out a belt and wanted to hang me with it. After that, he made me take vulgar intimate videos,” said the woman, writes “Darik”.
She managed to escape and tell her relatives, who filed a police report. The 19-year-old man, who also has a criminal record, has already been charged with two counts of unlawful imprisonment and failure to comply with a domestic violence protection order, as there were reports of previous violence.
Meanwhile, in just a few days, three pregnant women from Burgas sought protection from domestic violence at the Prevention Center. One of them lost her baby and the other two were examined by a doctor to determine if there was any danger to them and their fetus.
The district court twice ordered the most severe measure of “custodial detention”. Once for the attacker of the pregnant girl and a second time for the attacker who beat his wife and her father in front of their 16-year-old daughter.
The crime against the 23-year-old woman was committed on August 1. For him, the law stipulates a penalty of up to 6 years in prison.
“He threatened to kill her. You lived on a family basis. He beat her. He hit her in the head, he dragged her,” said Zornitsa Shtarbeva from the District Prosecutor’s Office.
The accused already has a sentence for inflicting medium bodily harm, but his public defender today told a different story: “He told me that the victim’s claims were a lie and rather that she attacked him. He even showed me a scratch on his neck,” said Vladimir Gospodinov.
The lawyer authorized by the accused refused to defend him.
“I have moral considerations. I am a woman and a mother, I cannot defend him”, said the lawyer. Veselina Vasileva.
In the town of Oryahovo, a man beat a woman with a club. The 62-year-old suspect was charged and detained for 72 hours. The victim was attacked by the man, who was unhappy that her dog went out into the street and could attack pedestrians.
A prosecutor in the Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office charged two men who threatened to kill a woman in a courtroom during an open court session. This was announced by the prosecution. After hearing the verdict, they told the victim that if they got out of prison, they would really kill her.
An 18-year-old teenager beat his mother and grandmother in Plovdiv, the police reported. The report of the violence was received at 14:30 on Wednesday.
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