I am Kamelia, Blago's wife. I address the people of Varna with the following words.
Yesterday, over 15 CCP agents entered my home and spent 4 hours there.
I was wearing a nursing nightgown. I asked them to get dressed, and they allowed me only on the condition that the front door remain open. While I turned to get an overcoat, a woman followed me into my home and began to enter the rooms. My two children were sleeping in them. I woke them up - Nikola, 2 years old, and Samuil, 1 month old. They searched every little corner, in every room. They also searched Samuil's clothes.
This is what the wife of Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev wrote on "Facebook".
I was forbidden to talk on the phone. “No communication with the outside world“. They interrogated me for a long time. They ate pickles. They advised me not to call a lawyer. It wasn't necessary. Although apparently I was also suspected of something. They didn't tell me what.
In the second hour, we finally managed to get the children out, because the apartment was unbreathable. There was no oxygen. There were too many government officials looking for something. But they didn't find anything.
Samuila is breastfeeding and needs me constantly. But she spent the evening with her grandmother. Our family is strong and has been through a lot. But no mother should have to go through this nightmare. Nobody.
Then they took Blago to the Municipality. They spent three hours looking for replacements. They refused to “work“ with random people, but police officers and agents with folders continued to arrive in the building. By midnight, Blago had been with the officers of the CPC and the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office for 10 hours. They waited until it got dark and late to detain him for a day. A patrol car that was rotating tires in the Municipality parking lot took him away.
Because everything is a show.
They ostentatiously took him out of his meeting with cultural figures, ostentatiously kept him for 3 hours in search of the “right” poem faces.
They took him to the district police station in a showy manner.
They detained him in a showy manner.
Blago is a very brave man. He stood up to the economic interests that have corrupted Varna, he stood up to the political ambitions for eternal power of the status quo. He stood up to the timelessness that has overtaken our city. Sometimes I don't see him for 12 hours. And he keeps telling me - this is what I started, this is what I am dedicated to. This is what I want to give to Nikola and Samuila - hope that Varna will be free. And it will be the city in which our children will choose to live their lives.
Support Blago today at 6 pm in front of Varna Municipality! Varna is in his heart, just as it is in the hearts of all of us!