The district court in Sliven ordered a measure of "house arrest" with electronic monitoring against a man who broke into a bank in Sliven.

Prosecutor Katja Stamenova, spokesperson of the District Prosecutor's Office-Sliven, reported this for BTA.

The prosecutor's office charged him with attempted burglary in the context of dangerous recidivism and asked for a permanent measure of "detention in custody."

As BTA reported, on the afternoon of December 17, a 41-year-old man broke into the window of a bank branch of Post Bank in Sliven and was detained by a police patrol.

On the day of the crime, he took a taxi from the Sliven village of Sotirya with the intention of robbing a bank.

He used a concrete block to smash the window of the bank branch.

Getting inside, he started rummaging through cupboards looking for money.

The prosecutor's office informed that the man has been convicted many times for various crimes - theft, robbery in the conditions of dangerous recidivism, as well as escaping from prison.

In 2005, he escaped from prison in Stara Zagora.

He has effective sentences of 8, 12 and 3 years, with his last sentence being eight years "imprisonment" in 2009, and was released from prison in 2017.

One of the convictions is for grand armed robbery.

A man broke into a bank in Sliven

A protest has been prepared to the District Court, the reasons for this being that the crime was committed in conditions of dangerous recidivism and is of a high degree of public danger, prosecutor Stamenova pointed out.

By law, the meeting will be scheduled within seven days

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