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DSB to Move for Parliamentary Hearing of Interior Minister, SANS Chair over EMCO Plant Explosion after Summer Recess

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Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) call for a hearing of the Interior Minister and the chair of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) regarding the explosion at an EMCO facility, the party's press office said. "On the first working day of the National Assembly, we will submit a request for a hearing of the Interior Minister and the chair of SANS concerning the explosion at the factory," the statement says. According to the party, they owe Parliament answers regarding all the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident in relation to what has been established, which theories are being investigated, and what actions the security services have taken. "There are good reasons to be particularly vigilant," DSB added. The party recalled that an attempt was made to poison Emilian Gebrev in 2015, along with his son and an EMCO executive. In that case, Bulgarian authorities traced the operation to Russian officers from the GRU (Russia's military intelligence service). Both before