BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

Chapter Two - CRIME

Section I -General Provisions

Article 12
(1) An act shall be considered not dangerous to society where it has been committed in situation of inevitable defence against immediate unlawful attack on state or public interests, on the person or the rights of the person defending himself or of another person, by inflicting harm on the attacker within the framework of the necessary limits.

(2) The limits of inevitable self-defence shall be considered exceeded where the defence obviously did not compare to the nature and danger of the attack.

(3) (New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 120/1997, SG No. 75/2006) The limits of inevitable defence shall not be considered exceeded where the attack took place through violent penetration into premises or through violent housebreaking.

(4) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, renumbered from Paragraph (3), SG No. 62/1997) The acting person shall not be punishable if he has committed the act of exceeding the limits of inevitable self-defence due to fright or confusion.