An incident on the night of August 2 in the mountain resort of Bansko has grown into an international dispute involving the governments of Bulgaria and Italy, the Bulgarian Jewish community, local police and residents. The two sides describe what happened in sharply different terms, and the facts that are agreed upon are considerably narrower than either the initial international coverage or the later Bulgarian rebuttals suggested.

Bulgaria has strongly condemned all forms of anti-Semitism following an incident in Bansko in which a group of Bulgarian youths allegedly threatened and directed anti-Semitic…

An incident on the night of August 2 in the mountain resort of Bansko has grown into an international dispute involving the governments of Bulgaria and Italy, the Bulgarian Jewish…