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 2018 Data
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The numbers recorded by the police refer to cases registered under substantive offences, many of which are hate speech provisions, and specific penalty enhancements in the Bulgarian Criminal Code. As such, all official numbers include hate crimes committed out of "hooligan motives," which falls outside of the OSCE's hate crime definition. The number of sentencing judgments refers to hate crimes proper.
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2018-10 | Violent attacks against people | OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2018-03 | Violent attacks against people | UNHCR
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2018-03 | Violent attacks against people | UNHCR
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2018-10 | Violent attacks against people | UNHCR
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2018 | Violent attacks against people | Center for Legal Aid - Voice in Bulgaria (CLA)
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2018-09 | Violent attacks against people | International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Anti-Roma hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2018-10 | Violent attacks against people | OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2018-05 | Violent attacks against people | OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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Anti-Muslim hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2018-09 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2018-07 | Attacks against property | Office of Grand Mufti in Bulgaria
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2018-09 | Attacks against property | SETA
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2018-05 | Violent attacks against people | OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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Anti-Christian hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2018-09 | Violent attacks against people | OIDAC
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2018-07 | Violent attacks against people | Jehovah's Witnesses
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Anti-Roma hate crime
The Council of Europe's Ad Hoc Committee Of Experts On Roma And Traveller Issues (CAHROM) published relevant recommendations in its "Thematic Report on Roma and Travellers' Access to Justice (with a gender focus)."
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of Bulgaria have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.