Archive for January, 2010
How the international press said that a killed criminal was a prominent journalist
I have read a lot of articles about the murdered Bobi Tsankov. First of all I’d like to say that shooting is unacceptable way to manage with criminals. This has to be done in court!!!
BUT…in case like this…I wonder how the international press have spread the information in a way which presents Bulgaria as a country where journalists are being killed for their free speach rather than a country where underground mafia kill one of its members. Bobi Tsankov WAS NOT a prominent journalist as BBC said nor he was a prominent radio journalist and author of a book on Bulgaria’s gangsters according to NY Times.
He used to work as a radio host where he started his frauds for hundreds of thousands levs. He had close connections with Sofia underground world. He survived few atempts of murder. Recently he decided to speak in the press and the police about the secrets of the mafia and even wrote a book. He published some articles in not so famous weekly newspaper trying to call himself a journalist. He even complained that he was threatened to be killed if he don’t stop these stories. The truth is that he was more popular with his criminal actions than his writings about the Mafia’s secrets.
I will say again that a daylight shooting is bad enough. I don’t care about the internal mafia wars but such a shocking act in the centre of Sofia is quite frightful to hear. I don’t care if he was going to reveal something important and that’s why his mouth was shut or he was murderd by someone that was lured by him and lost a lot of money. Everyone will agree that this should not happen in European country. And we all hope that the new govenrment will succeed to put the criminals in prison not in graves…
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