Bulgaria
Bulgaria regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Bulgaria's hate crime laws are a combination of specific penalty enhancements and substantive offences. The data reported to ODIHR do not present separately cases of hate crime, incitement to hatred and discrimination. The authorities responsible for collecting hate crime data are the Interior Ministry's Co-ordination, Information and Analysis Directorate; the Supreme Judicial Council's Commission on Professional qualification, IT and statistics; the Supreme Court of Cassation's Criminal College; the Supreme Prosecutor of Cassation's Analysis Unit; and the National Statistical Institute.
OFFICIAL DATA
Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
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2020 | 727 | 353 | 289 |
2019 | 22 | 432 | 155 |
2018 | 46 | 6 | 158 |
2017 | 22 | 9 | 9 |
2016 | 28 | 299 | 71 |
2015 | 704 | 752 | 135 |
2014 | 617 | 750 | 117 |
2013 | 651 | 300 | 239 |
2012 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2011 | 29 | 41 | 10 |
2010 | 20 | 34 | 4 |
2009 | 20 | 22 | 9 |
About 2016 Data
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The numbers recorded by the police refer to cases registered under substantive offence and specific penalty enhancement provisions in the Bulgarian Criminal Code. The statistic provided by the Office of the Prosecutor indicates the number of pre-trial proceedings brought to court under provisions, some of which fall outside the OSCE's definition of hate crime. The sentencing figure refers to cases registered by the Supreme Judicial Council in which the decisions have been issued in 2016. All official numbers include hate crime committed out of “hooligan motives,” which may fall outside of the OSCE's definition.
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES
Anti-Muslim hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2016-06 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-12 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-08 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-11 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-11 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-10 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2016-09 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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Anti-Christian hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2016-07 | Violent attacks against people | Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
In its "Concluding observations on the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic reports of Bulgaria," the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended the appointment of specialized hate crime prosecutors.
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of Bulgaria have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.