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Bulgaria: New evidence linking Hezbollah to Burgas bus bombing

Bulgaria's interior minister said Wednesday that his country has received additional evidence implicating Hezbollah in the 2012 bus bombing in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver, Sofia News Agency reported.
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the attack.
Tsvetlin Yovchev who was speaking at a briefing, said that he would not provide any details of the evidence as the investigation was ongoing, according to the report.
But the Interior Minister also said that "there was no doubt who masterminded the act, only the ID of the perpetrator remained unclear."
He said that there was no change in Bulgaria's position on the bombing and that Bulgaria "has leads pointing to Hezbollah."
The EU will hold meetings this week, ahead of its foreign ministers’ meeting on Monday, in an effort to marshal a consensus to include Hezbollah’s military wing on its terror list.
There is cautious optimism among EU and Israeli diplomats that Europe will sanction a part of Hezbollah.
A diplomat from a country in favor of a Hezbollah ban said a “consensus is clearly building” because “the evidence that it [Hezbollah] committed terrorism on EU soil is strong,” AFP reported on Tuesday.
The diplomat appeared to reference the evidence linking Hezbollah to last years bus bombing.
Bulgaria said last month that it only had an "indication" that Lebanon's Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify any European Union move to list it as a terrorist group.
"It is important that the (EU) decision be based not only on the bombing in Burgas because I think the evidence we have is not explicit," Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, told national state radio BNR in June.

By JPOST.COM STAFF. Reuters, Jonny Paul and Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.

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