Bulgaria investigates fire at weapons site that owner calls sabotage
Summary
Bulgaria is investigating a fire and explosions at a private ammunition storage site run by EMCO, a weapons company supplying Ukraine. EMCO called the fire sabotage and denied any accident, while Bulgarian officials said outside interference has not been ruled out.Key Facts
- The fire happened at EMCO’s ammunition facility near Gorni Varpishta in central Bulgaria.
- No one was hurt in the fire or the explosions that followed.
- EMCO stated that the storage site had not been used for months and had passed safety inspections recently.
- The company said sabotage is likely and dismissed the idea of human error.
- EMCO is owned by Emilian Gebrev, who was reportedly targeted in a poisoning attempt linked to Russian agents in 2015.
- Bulgaria supplies weapons to Ukraine, even though it recently stopped state-owned arms shipments; private companies like EMCO still send weapons.
- Similar attacks and suspicious fires have happened at Bulgarian defense companies for over a decade.
- Several European countries are seeing sabotage incidents, which many blame on Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
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