The status of the royal stables will become clear after August 15, the MoI will restore the burnt roof (OBZOR)

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Sofia. Culture Minister Boil Banov announced that the status of the "Royal Stables" would become clear after August 15th. The fire of the King's stables occurred on the night of July 29th. 30 firefighters fought the fire all night. Burn the roof of one of the buildings in the former royal stables of downtown Sofia. There are no injuries in the incident, and the structure of the burned roof is about 2000 square meters. On Monday, the security of the building began. The complex was used for stables in the era of King Ferdinand. There is currently the Department of Applied Arts of the National Academy of Arts. The mayor of the city, Yordanka Fandakova, has formed a committee of experts to badess the damage to the fire-damaged building and compel the owner to restore it in its authentic form. In February of this year, the mayor of Sofia asked the Ministry of Culture to announce that the buildings of the "King's stables" are declared a monument of culture with the highest degree of protection "of importance national ". In 2016, it became clear that the property in the center of Sofia, which covers an area of ​​almost 7.5 acres, was sold for BGN 90 per m². m., the total price being 658 870,90 BGN excluding VAT. It was divided into three parts to reduce the sales value of each of them and thus avoid the obligation to sell state property for more than BGN 500 000 per decision of the Council of Ministers. The buyer of the place is "Evrotrans Building" EOOD Yanko Ivanov. The prosecutor's office accused Sofia district governor Veselin Penev, who resigned for the case. At present, the Sofia City Court has a criminal case related to the "King's stables", in which two people – former District Governor Veselin Penev and the approved evaluator Julia Dimitrova- Tsekova – are accused. Penev has been found guilty of several crimes – the conclusion of a case, with which he suffered more than 10 million leva, and deliberate lethargy, as a result of which also had adverse consequences for him. regional administration and for the Bulgarian State. In his statement, the director of Eurotransbuild EOOD Yanko Ivanov pointed out that the burned building of the "King's stables" is not their property. "Although the owner of the site is Eurotransbyl Ltd, every owner of a building on the ground has the right to build and, in the event of loss of the building, has the right to restore it to its original appearance and in its entirety without permission from the landowner, "he said, adding that the speculation that the building's combustion opens the doors to the subsequent construction of the land does not correspond to the factual situation.
Boil Banov explained that the royal stables are currently under the protection of the Cultural Heritage Act. The Commission will give the status of cultural value to the site. "And this status is in itself a state attitude towards cultural objects, it will not change borders and regimes – no improvement, no push, no possibility of change "said the minister and commented will become a site of national importance, with a high security regime. The minister explained that the situation is complicated because of the confused property, the division of land properties and acts that are conducted. Minister Valentin Radev said the second floor of the burned "royal stables" building belongs to the Ministry of the Interior. The ministry undertook to restore the roof. "We will not find the other owners to share the costs," commented Radev
For FOCUS, the director of the Directorate of Inspection for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Alexander Traykov, announced: "The fire of the" King's stables "is certainly not related to subsequent construction attempts.
Biliana IVANOVA

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