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Drunk Bulgarian damages eight cars

A 26-year old unemployed Bulgarian man damaged eight cars while he was drunk early yesterday, a court was told this morning.

Yasen Atanasov admitted to causing some €1,000 worth of damages to the cars parked along Triq it-Turisti before he was arrested. One of the cars belonged to a police inspector.

The damage consisted mostly of broken door mirrors and scratches.

The man was arrested on site.

He was condemned to a 15-month jail term suspended for four years and ordered to pay for the damages.

The man has already paid one of the car owners.

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Antonia Varlamova

Nov 8th 2010, 19:23

It appears the inferiority complex so prevalent amongst the Maltese is biting somebody particularly hard, here, as exemplified by the above comment. If your job's worse than mine (I'm a Russian doctor), or your education lacks, and so you cannot afford living in Sliema, there's still really no need to spew foam and tear hair -- jealousy kills, my dear.

MICHAEL SCICLUNA

Nov 9th 2010, 21:47

he did mention the unemployed!! i expect anyone who's a doctor to be living in a villa after a few years of practice with the money they earn, being a foreigner in your case has nothing to do with what c busutill said

Robert Azzopardi

Nov 8th 2010, 15:48

I'm sorry, but who are you exactly??? "this guys getting money from somewhere (probably illegally)." How can you even speculate that way about a person you read of in a news portal?
Are you also a Magistrate or Judge perhaps? You do know that all criminal offences have stipulated penalties right? And I do hope you do not expect anything but a suspended sentence for what is, yes an offence, but a rather minor one too.
@Charmaine Marmara, I have seen Maltese teenagers doing exactly the same thing in Swieqi side streets, actually damaging more than eight cars as they would begin at one end of the street, smashing each mirror as they walk to the other end
@Frank Grech, '' an unemployed Bulgarian man'' there are Maltese in Employment who perhaps wouldn't be able to pay either but really that is totally beyond the point!
@timesofmalta.com, I honestly, once again, see absolutely no relevance in mentioning the nationality of the man, neither do I see it relevant to mention his employment status. It is absolutely redundant unless you deliberatly want to spark off comments like the ones below.

Christian Sciberras

Nov 10th 2010, 15:17

Robert Azzopardi - That is, unfortunately, how the media works. If only they could find the person had a limping left leg, it would make a better headline as well!!

Charles Sammut

Nov 8th 2010, 14:31

"pls go get drunk and damage things in your own country"

This is as much his country as any other EU country.

It just makes me wonder how an unemployed person can afford to travel to another country, pay the rent, live, get drunk and pay for damages.

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