Bulgaria's Police Secretary Angry with Judiciary

Bulgaria's Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, Kalin Georgiev, has stated that the court should be an arbiter and not give credit to only one of the sides in cases. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Bulgaria’s Chief Secretary of the Interior, Kalin Georgiev, has said that the police are forced to work against the system, rather than as part of it.

“It is not good that we are forced to work against the system and not as part of it. It is definitely not good when one part of the state power is acting as if it is not part of the country,” Georgiev said Tuesday in front of the Bulgarian National Television BNT.

He has also stated that the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office are not the institutions that decide the punishments of the criminals and added that the police are not happy that they have to work twice on the same case.

“Everything we do and all the efforts we make cost money. I do not want our work to be defined as useless. Everything we do is materializing in the court. Last year 51% of all the court’s rulings were probations or suspended sentences,” Georgiev said.

The Chief Secretary of the Interior has also said that the court should be an arbiter and not give credit to only one of the sides in the cases.

“I do not think that one well-structured crime ring could leave visible traces. We cannot expect that one assassin would leave biological material,” he said.

Georgiev’s statement came as a response to the court’s decision to release four out of the five detained during the special police operation “the Killers”, which targeted an organized crime group carrying out gangland murders.

The five “Killers” have been accused of murdering controversial football boss Yuri Galev, who was brutally shot June 20 and died in hospital ten days later.

The Bulgarian Court of Appeals decided that there is not enough evidence that the organized crime group existed or that it was armed. It also ruled out that there was not enough evidence that the five detained had a common reason to kill Galev.

The court’s decision sparkled a war of words and mutual accusations between the executive and the judiciary in Bulgaria.

The Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has stated that he saw the actions of the court as incompetent and sabotaging the honest efforts of the Bulgarian police.

PM Boyko Borisov has declared that the police will gather more evidence and send them to FBI and Europol for their assessment.

The Deputy Chief Prosecutor Boyko Naydenov has stated that the “Killers” were prepared to carry out the assassination of the Bulgarian PM.

However, the Chief Secretary of the Interior refused to comment on that subject.

“I will not comment any information connected to the PM’s safety,” Georgiev said.

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