Vietnamese Arrested as Attacker of Bulgarian Journalist - Report

The Editor in Chief of the Bulgarian web-site europe.bg, Ognyan Boyadzhiev, was beaten black and blue in his apartment in Sofia's Ivan Vazov quarter. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgaria police have detained a suspect who is one of the attackers of the Bulgarian journalist Ognyan Boyadzhiev.

The name of the arrested person has not been released, but he is allegedly one of the perpetrators who robed and stabbed Boyadzhiev in the neck shortly before midnight on Sunday. According to unconfirmed information of the BTA news agency, the detained person is 17 years old and of Vietnamese origin.

The Editor in Chief of the Bulgarian web-site europe.bg, Ognyan Boyadzhiev, was beaten black and blue in his apartment in Sofia's Ivan Vazov quarter.

Two men rang on the victim's door, and attacked him after he opened, inflicting him knife wounds.

The perpetrators took personal belongings and debit cards, and ran away after they locked Boyadzhiev in his own apartment, the police reported. Before they left the apartment, they cut the phone cable, and took Boyadzhiev's mobile phone.

His condition is stable, and there is no threat for his life, doctors said.

Ognyan Boyadzhiev is Editor in Chief of the europe.bg portal. He is the creator and the first host of the bTV morning program, "Tazi Sutrin" ("This Morning"). Before that he was news writer and host of the radio broadcasts "Ogi and the Seven Dwarfs", and "Breakfast on the Grass" on the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

In 2007, Boyadzhiev was the head of the elections headquarters of the rightist Sofia mayor candidate, Martin Zaimov.

 

 

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