Bulgaria's Interior Minister Criticizes Judicial System Again

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetan has announced that the expected critics by the EC towards the country's judicial system will be well-grounded. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has reiterated his critics towards the country's judicial system, while commenting on the expected EC report.

“The judicial system in Bulgaria today does not respond to the needs of the society and the coutry as a EU member state,” Tsvetanov said Tuesday.

The minister's comment came as a response to the expected critics by the European Commission towards the judicial system in Bulgaria,

Tsvetanov added that critics, pointed in the EC report, will be well-grounded. However, he said he will comment more after the report is official published.

The Bulgarian Interior Minister has also noted the discrepancies between the job of the police and the court,

“The police is doing everything possible to perfect the charges and the proofs against the key figures of Bulgaria's underworld, and then they receive smaller sentences,” Tsvetanov said.

On Monday, the minister once again stated his dissatisfaction with the way the Courts are releasing top criminals arrested by the police,

Tsvetanov pointed out that this is very disappointing to the public at large, which expects elimination of crime and safe conditions, explaining his often strong words regarding magistrates are not a desire for provocation or confrontation, but a response to the worries of common Bulgarians, which they share with him every day.

The Minister gave as example the 3 people detained in the capital Sofia for 9 robberies, one making full confessions, but all at large now, because the judge let them go.

“This is police work round-the-clock, but when they are let go – what is then the impression of both citizens and criminals?” Tsvetanov says, adding the problem continues to be the unreformed judicial system.