{"id":36539,"date":"2017-12-11T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=36539"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:32:27","slug":"prosecutors-office-grills-journalist-6-times-sees-no-threat-by-crime-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/prosecutors-office-grills-journalist-6-times-sees-no-threat-by-crime-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor’s Office Grills Journalist 6 Times, Sees No Threat by Crime Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Threats against Maria Dimitorvoa, journalist from Zov News,<\/em>\u00a0were commonplace vulgarities and do not warrant pre-trial proceedings. A prosecutor from the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the Bulgarian northwestern city if Vratsa came to this conclusion on November 30, 2017, when she signed a decree terminating the probe triggered by Dimitrova’s claim.<\/p>\n

The threats against Maria Dimitrova and the publisher of Zov News<\/em>, Dr. Georgi Ezekiev, were made after she interviewed a victim of a drug trafficking crime group at the request of Bivol. Immediately after the interview, the victim was beaten, suffered a broken hand and was warned not to say anything else.<\/p>\n

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The information about the crime group came from Switzerland, where an elderly woman had been detained with 700 grams of cocaine. She named brothers Anri and Mancho Kovachevi<\/strong> from Vratsa as organizers of the drug channel. All this is described in detail in several publications by Bivol (see here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>), but to date, the authorities have done nothing to neutralize the organized crime group in question.<\/p>\n

Instead, however, the authorities have demonstrated some diligence in the questioning of journalist Maria Dimitrova, who has had to take a walk to the Vratsa Regional Police Precinct six times to be grilled over her complaint. That is what she told Bivol and provided the decree that refuses any proceeding against one of the group\u2019s ringleaders – Mancho Kovachev.<\/p>\n

In Prosecutor St. Vasileva\u2019s decree there is not even a single word about the aggression against the boy and his beating. This boy was the one interviewed by Maria and this interview triggered the threats against her and the publisher. In addition, there is no mention of the information provided ten days earlier by a member of the same crime group who claimed in a video interview that the group planned to kill the publisher of Zov News<\/em> Dr. Ezekiev.<\/p>\n