Overview
- A group of skinheads surrounded and blocked a hotel in Bansko on Sunday, shouting Nazi slogans, giving salutes and verbally threatening dozens of Jewish teenagers staying inside.
- The youths were a delegation from Rome’s Jewish community and participants in a Bnei Akiva youth‑movement training program who included representatives from Israel.
- Police officers arrived and initially drove the attackers away, but witnesses say the group returned after the officers left and again blocked hotel entrances.
- Organizers filed a formal complaint and Bulgarian police say they have launched an investigation to identify the perpetrators; no injuries or arrests have been reported so far.
- Community and Italian political leaders, including Victor Fadlun, Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, condemned the episode and warned it reflects a recent spike in antisemitic incidents in Bulgarian resorts and across Europe.