Bulgaria: There are Suspects for the Assassination Attempt against the Chief Prosecutor

"There are suspects in the attempted assassination of the Prosecutor General". This was announced by acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev at a briefing in the Council of Ministers, where a meeting of Prime Minister Galab Donev with representatives of the security services was held. However, he refused to give details.

"It is obvious that the level of security of the cars and the technical means available to the Nationa Security Service should be increased, because in this case what proved to be decisive was the armor of the car used by the chief prosecutor", the interior minister also stated.

"This is the best protected vehicle that the NSS currently has. And it is this good protection that has resulted in the particular explosive device not being able to penetrate the car's armor and get inside where the occupants were. It is undisputed, that the NSS should be equipped with both reliable and modern cars (the last one currently in use has been available to the state since 2012, which is absolutely unacceptable), and with modern technical means to ensure the security of the protected persons", emphasized Ivan Demerdzhiev.

Demerdzhiev announced that by order of the Prime Minister, a working group was formed, whose tasks will be to unite all the information of the security services in order to reach the perpetrators and possibly the sponsors of the explosion yesterday, and to avoid similar actions in the future.

According to him, everything necessary will be done to reveal and punish the perpetrators of this act.

The assassination attempt against the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev took place yesterday shortly before noon near the Sofia village of Kovachevtsi. Geshev...