From Krapets to Durankulak; in the gulf of Bolata, on the beach at Shkorpilovtsi… Pick a random vacant area on the Black Sea coast and there you will find the new hipsters: motorized, rich, cheeky, insolent, aggressive and dirty, very dirty. This explains why they always leave destruction in their wake, turning otherwise beautiful places in public cloacae, extensive toilets under the stars whose area expands at the whim of the wind.
Mobile homes, camper vans, tents, awnings: anyone craving the freedom to spend several days without any rules, hygiene or responsibility for their actions completely free of charge settles somewhere on our beaches. Our Romanian neighbors have long perceived the Bulgarian coast as a place full of bliss where they can afford to make a total mess without ever being caught… by the beach towel or the beer case, for example. In a television report broadcasted by Nova TV a Romanian shared that he has been coming to this place for four years now, completely free of charge, and it has never occurred to him that the party is, in fact, illegal. And why should it? If the public authorities try to perform their functions and send authorized representatives to end the camping of the clueless, ecologists will immediately pop up to protest for the right of… free movement guaranteed by the Constitution. The Constitution, however, does not mention anything about uncontrolled fertilization and destruction of protected areas, or arbitrary law and rights to dispose of state property. When the ombudsman Maya Manolova supported the protests against the rules limiting wild camping, did she know that she was giving her personal support for filth and aggression against nature comparable to an ecological disaster? In late June a traditional group of vocal wreckers blocked Eagles’ Bridge under the specious pretext that they oppose the overdevelopment of the Black Sea coast. It did not matter that the main purpose of the government was to enforce rules for wild camping in order to stop people from making a huge mess and abusing nature. Still Maya Manolova stood with them. At the end of the day these people are from Sofia and, in her deep hesitation whether to run for mayor, a little bit of sympathy from the capital goes a long way.

Tourists turned the coast near Shkorpilovtsi into a dump[/caption] Why don’t ecologists care about the real environmental problems? After a section of the Struma Motorway almost burned, because a whole dump was created in the foundations of a bridge – possibly a first worldwide! – inspections of the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) established similar outrageous cases under another 120 bridges. No one has ever heard of ecologists concerned with this type of illegal pollution of the ecosystems in the respective regions. The dumps (most of these 120 are unauthorized) undoubtedly represent an enormous problem relating to the soil, air, water sources and the feeding habits of the fauna. Why wasn’t there a single green, nature-oriented person from a relevant organization to alert the Prosecutor’s Office that unknown persons use the national infrastructure for criminal activity? The Greens simply have no interest in this. The ecologists will not become active on this matter, unless they find a way to make money from garbage. All superficial simulations of activity at the Ministry of Tourism are entirely uncalled for, as the institution cannot bring order into camping. Another two years will pass to allegedly improve the relevant regulation, just to make sure. During this time the mayors will be unable to chase away the impostors. They will not have a mechanism to impose fines, to stop the campers, to state that the land is not the personal toilet of a bunch of hobos. The pungent stench rising from the warm sand is also subject to… division. According to the people who regularly live on the beach for free, they are not the ones making the mess. Conceivably they have reached the peak performance of a zero-waste technology embedded in their bodies. According to them, the mess is made by “those” coming just for the weekend. When a media decides to battle the squatters, it asks them straight in the face why they are disposing of something they do not own. If, however, the same people are targeted by the state authorities with the aim to be removed, the media attack politely the institutions and give the microphones to the unfortunate hipsters that like this kind of talk: “This is my country! I love being in Bulgaria. They will not make me leave my country! I am cleaning my mess and I am being nice, but they are chasing me instead of going after the criminals! I will not give up my constitutional right to free movement!” (and, respectively, anchoring wherever I please – but this is not said out loud).


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