Demolition row: Culture Ministry told Plovdiv two years ago that tobacco warehouse was a cultural monument

(Sofia Globe) ... Prosecutors have opened pre-trial proceedings in connection with the attempted demolition, which began on March 6 but was stopped by the intervention of the ministry amid large-scale public outrage at the bid to raze the building, which dates to the 1920s and is part of a precinct reflecting the city’s historic place in the tobacco trade. Continued