US Edition‘They Lock Us up Like Dogs’: Six Detained for Abuse of Patients in Bulgaria Nursing Home
- On June 9, 2025, Bulgarian authorities detained six individuals in a village on allegations of physically abusing and administering drugs to residents in a privately run nursing facility.
- The arrests followed raids on illegal care homes where sub-standard and abusive conditions were reported amid rising care costs and insufficient facilities.
- Officials rescued 75 residents from two centers in Yagoda and Govedartsi, finding some tied up, sedated, and locked in unsanitary rooms without proper medical care.
- Deputy Minister Ivan Krastev said authorities found victims subjected to constant physical abuse and drugging, while district prosecutor Tanya Dimitrova announced charges including unlawful imprisonment and bodily harm.
- These events triggered widespread inspections to combat illegal nursing homes and property fraud targeting vulnerable people, highlighting systemic issues in Bulgaria's elder care sector.
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More than 200 people have been rescued from six illegal residences in recent weeks. Economic precariousness – Bulgaria is the poorest country in the European Union – pushes many families to leave their elders in these places Read
‘They lock us up like dogs’: Six detained for abuse of patients in Bulgaria nursing home
Six people have been arrested in a Bulgarian village on suspicion of beating and drugging patients in a private nursing home for older people and those with dementia or other mental health problems, authorities said on Monday.
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In Bulgaria, police and social workers have found 75 severely neglected elderly people in two illegal nursing homes. People were tied to beds, sedated and beaten, reports the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior, which speaks of "torture chambers". Five people have been arrested.
According to the Ministry of Justice, some of the seniors were "kept on their feet" and "found under the influence of narcotics." Five suspects were arrested and detained.
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