11 Questioned in Bulgarian Football Boss Shooting

Yuriy Galev (r), president of the Rilski Sportist football club and nationalist municipal councilor in the town of Samokov has a long wrapsheet wiht the court and the police. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

The police have interrogated 11 people in connection with the Sunday shooting of Yuriy Galev, president of the Rilski Sportist football club and nationalist municipal councilor in the town of Samokov.

The news was reported Monday by the Head of the Regional Police Directorate in Samokov, Plamen Vasilev.

Vasilev said the interrogations are continuing Monday and the police have 4 leads in the case. No one has been arrested.

Meanwhile, doctors form the Sofia emergency hospital “Pirogov,” announced Galev is still in critical condition and on life support. It was also discovered that he did not have a health insurance policy.

Galev was brought to the Pirogov hospital in Sofia with an ambulance from Samokov at about 6 am Sunday, according to the Interior Ministry

Unofficial reports say unknown men fired rounds with a Kalashnikov at his car. Galev has five gunshot wounds in the stomach and the limbs.

Galev is notorious in Samokov for a number of criminal acts. The latest one was in February when Galev and several of his associates beat two ski lift guards in the Borovets mountain resort after the latter refused to let his son ride the lift for free.

In the wake of this incident, the local police arrested four of Galev's men for arson of an office of the Borosport firm, which operates the ski lift.

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