Police in Southern Bulgaria on Tuesday asked a prosecutor to
order an investigation against four members of Muslim religious sect suspected
of fundamentalist propaganda.
Police in Pazardzhik, 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Sofia, said
members of the Chalifate sect called in their sermons to replace Bulgaria's
existing legislation by the Islamic religious law or the Sharia.
Police said sect members preached in a Roma neighborhood of Pazardzhik.
Officers said they seized outlawed fundamentalist literature in places where
sect followers gathered.
The Chalifate sect is banned in neighboring Turkey and in Germany.