Members and supporters of several nationalist organizations take part in a march in commemoration of late General Hristo Lukov, a Bulgarian army commander, in Sofia, Bulgaria, February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
SOFIA (Reuters) - More than 2,000 far-right activists from several European countries staged a torchlit procession through Sofia on Saturday to honour a Bulgarian pro-Nazi general, despite opposition from the Balkan country's political parties and Jewish groups.
The procession, known as the Lukov March after Hristo Lukov, who led the pro-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s and early 1940s, went ahead after a court overturned the Sofia municipality's ban for a second consecutive year.
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