Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General tore off his Resignation and claimed Borissov wanted to Shut him Up

Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev announced today that he is resigning. After which he tore off his resignation letter and announced that he was not afraid. He did this in the Sofia Courthouse at a special briefing, his deputies were next to him, without Borislav Sarafov.

Geshev's refusal to resign means that the Supreme Judicial Council will have to deal with the proposal of six members of the prosecutor's collegium for his removal due to the impairment of the prestige of the judiciary.

Geshev hinted that he had been warned to submit his resignation by 10 a.m. today and was threatened that otherwise someone would press the "enter" button. He declined to name who tipped him off, but when he gets evidence, he will reveal it.

The chief prosecutor did not answer a single journalistic question and announced that he had called on his deputy, Borislav Sarafov, to resign, because of the betrayal of the Bulgarian people. And that if he doesn't, he will file a motion for his release tomorrow.

"Yesterday I was invited to resign by 10 o'clock. Someone will press the button for some videos, so I should comply. There were also lyrical deviations that if I'm alone on the rock, and there's a wind blowing... I'm not afraid. As much as it sounds like a cliché. The coward dies every day and the brave only once," said Geshev, quoting judge Giovanni Falcone.

"Politics has to come out of the judiciary, where until now it tried to some degree to carefully guide it in the interests of its own vested interests. And now it is not doing it like that, not morally. It all started months ago, when I received a proposal, veiled, they said it was from Boyko Borissov, to become ambassador to Israel or Turkey, or to have a career in his party. I didn't...