„The remand of the three detained for the violence in Sofia mall will be heard on Tuesday in the Sofia City Court. The court will decide whether to keep them in custody permanently or release them. The entire group consisted of four people and it was their first offense in terms of criminal activity. This was stated in the “NOVA News Interview” the deputy district prosecutor of Sofia Atanas Dotsinski, commenting on the case of the three minors and a minor boy who attacked an employee of a shopping center in Sofia.
„The group are friends, classmates who live in the same neighborhood. They got together and decided to carry out these acts in the mall. The instigator was the minor boy who is 13 years old. He moved on the escalator in the mall and started to commit the hooligan acts, Dotsinski emphasized.
He expressed hope that keeping the young people in custody will have a re-educative effect on them. "Not only to them, but to anyone else who would think of committing similar acts,", the deputy district prosecutor is categorical.
Docinski also explained what sentence awaits the teenagers. "Since the moment of committing the criminal act is important, which in this case is while the boys were minors - the law provides for a reduction. For an adult, it is up to 5 years of imprisonment. But the reduction for minors reduces the amount of the punishment - imprisonment for up to 2 years".