Plamen Goranov
Bulgarian activist
Born on: October 20, 1976Died on: March 3, 2013
Aged: 36 years 134 days (436 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Bulgaria
Birth Sign: Libra
Plamen Goranov was a Bulgarian photographer and mountain climber, and a Varna-based local protest leader of the 2013 Bulgarian nationwide protests.
He became a symbol of the Bulgarian social protest movements and a catalyst for nationwide protests and government resignations when on 20 February 2013 he set himself on fire in front of the Varna municipal building.
He died from his injuries in a local hospital on 3 March, Bulgarian Liberation Day, a Bulgarian national holiday celebrating liberation from five centuries of Ottoman rule.
Goranov protested against the organized crime group TIM and the TIM-controlled Varna mayor Kiril Yordanov.
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