Bulgaria

Nikolay Yovev

Member of *National Resistance* (NR), connected to a bomb attack over the office of *Euroroma* in the small city of Sandanski. On 29 July 2012, this very act critically injured Malin Iliev, a 58 years old man from Roma origins, who died a few days later (https://lupa.bg/news/8-godini-nyama-vinoven-za-vzriva-pred-kluba-na-ldquoevroromardquo-v-sandanski_45493news.html). At the same town, three months earlier, two handmade bombs nearly costed the life of the accommodation tenant in another violent homophobic act. Аs a gift for his devotion, Nikolai Yovev – оne of the major suspect of both terrorist acts – was nominated as an independent candidate for the EU Parliament in 2014.