Bulgarian investigative journalist killed, authorities say
Bulgarian investigative journalist killed, authorities say
SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian journalist who reported on an investigation into alleged corruption linked to European Union funds was killed in the city of Ruse on the Danube, authorities said on Sunday.
Prosecutors in the Balkan country said the body of Viktoria Marinova, 30, was found in a park in Ruse on Saturday. They identified it only by their initials.
"It's about rapes and murders," Interior Minister Mladen Marinov told reporters. He said there was no evidence to suggest that the murder was related to Marinova's work and that there was no information that she had been threatened.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told reporters: "I am convinced that it is a matter of time before the murder is revealed." The best criminologists were sent to Ruse, do not press them. A lot of DNA had been obtained. "
Police are expected to reveal more details on Monday.
"His death was caused by blows to the head and suffocation, and his mobile phone, car keys, glasses and some of his clothes were missing," said Ruse's regional prosecutor, Georgy Georgiev.
Marinova, who was a board member of TVN TVN, one of the most popular television channels in northeastern Bulgaria, is the third journalist killed in the European Union in one year.
Local media reported that Marinova had recently been involved in the coverage of an investigation by a group of Bulgarian journalists about companies involved in EU-funded infrastructure projects run by local authorities.
Last October, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta's best-known investigative journalist, was killed when a powerful bomb blew up her car and Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was shot dead in February.
"With great pain and insurmountable pain, the TVN team is experiencing the loss of our beloved colleague Victoria Marinova and we pray for compassion for the pain of her family and colleagues," TVN said in a brief statement.
Bulgaria ranked 111 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index this year, lower than any other EU member and also lower than other countries in the Western Balkans, some of which they are candidates for EU membership.
In October 2017, hundreds of Bulgarian journalists protested in central Sofia over threats from Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov against the country's largest broadcasters. He accused the mainstream media of leading a "mass smear campaign" against him.
Report by Angel Krasimirov, Edited by William Maclean
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