Although it sounds like a story from Berlin or Paris, the incident reported below happened on Sunday in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Unlike central European countries, Bulgaria enjoys a large proportion of cultural enrichment, some of it longstanding — which is not surprising, given all those centuries of Ottoman rule and its proximity to Turkey. In this case, however, the suspected perps were Africans.

Many thanks to RR for translating this report from Blitz.bg:

Africans stabbed 22-year-old Nicole six times

The three Africans that tried to slaughter a girl yesterday near the Vardar metro station stabbed her six times. The attack took place shortly after midnight, when the 22-year-old Nicole crossed paths with the three blacks — two women and a male.

The girl was with her boyfriend Hristo, when they walked close to the blacks. Somehow a row began between her and the blacks. All the rest happened very fast — one of the blacks took out a knife and started to stab the girl on her breasts and shoulders. When she began to scream and raise the alarm, being covered with blood, the foreigners ran away. Hristo called emergency, and soon the emergency services and police arrived, but the criminals had escaped…

During the attack it was as if the girl was paralysed and didn’t resist, not out of fear, but because of the very suddenness of the attack. She and her boyfriend say they didn’t even see the faces of the attackers clearly. The only description they could give was that they were young blacks…

The cause of the attack remains a mystery, the Capital City police say. The aggressors didn’t rob the couple of their money, mobile phones or other property. The police conclude that the couple must have somehow provoked the Africans, yet the victims deny any verbal contact with the attackers — no insult or provocation…

After the attempted murder the 22-year-old was treated in the Pirogov Emergency Medicine Hospital. Her wounds were sutured, and now she is out of any immediate life-threatening danger.