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The MRF has created a veritable dajibao against bTV, sending a letter to the European institutions about the slippage committed by a television reporter, interpreted by the party as “lying and manipulation” against its honorary president Ahmed Dogan.
On Thursday, the MRF demanded and received a public apology from television for a report by journalist Kanna Racheva about a protest demanding the resignation of chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev. At the end of the report, it says that it is in front of the “SJC building on Ekzarh Yosif street, where the discussion of the request of the Union of Judges for the early release of Ahmed Dogan will begin tomorrow at 9:30 am”. The discussion in the Supreme Judicial Council was about a request for a procedure for the early release of Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev. The journalist’s mistake was that instead of Geshev’s name, she called him Dogan.
This blunder was enough for the MRF to inflate the journalist’s and television’s guilt to absurd proportions and conclusions.
The MRF announced Thursday that it was “growing with growing concern about the increasingly blatant and overt politicization of news and political debates on national airwaves, particularly on bTV.”
The letter, sent to the television address and distributed to all the media, said that the bTV newscast at 7:00 pm on October 21 “crossed the last psychological barrier of blatant lies and manipulations” and that they would not accept “attempts” . to sweep this scandalous act “under the rug,” with the excuse that it was a slip or something like that. “The party demanded a public apology from the media and the journalist.
BTV described the incident as “inadvertent human error of language” and apologized to the honorary chairman of the MRF, rejecting “any allegation of intent.”
Apparently, this was not enough, because on Thursday night the MRF press center announced that they had informed the European institutions about the “scandalous” mistake of “a bTV journalist”. The recipients were Vera Yourova, Vice President of the European Commission, EU Commissioner Didier Reynders and many high-level politicians in the European Parliament.
The MRF stated that the reporter’s inadvertent error was “inadmissible falsehood”, “scandalous act” and “lying and blatant manipulation”. There are also serious accusations against bTV, whose way of working is described as “a model of (mis) use of a respected medium for pre-election political purposes by failed political leaders and their parties.”
According to the MRF, television “has a fixation on the honorary chairman of the MRF, Dr. Ahmed Dogan” and that he “serves the party” of Hristo Ivanov. The MRF urged the bTV management to condemn this unhealthy fixation and the actions of its journalists.
This is not the first signal from the MRF to Brussels in the protest season that began in July after the action of “Democratic Bulgaria” co-president Hristo Ivanov near the Dogan Sea Granary and the subsequent mass protest action of citizens in the same place.
Referring to the MRF, the president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Hans van Baalen defended on Twitter the honorary president of the MRF Ahmed Dogan and called the people on the protest beach in Rosenets “extremists” who attacked to Dogan and his private property.
Baalen’s position sparked a wave of outrage under his office from Bulgarians, who described him as shameful, insulting, false and misleading. They recalled that the Rosenets protesters had not attacked Dogan’s private property and that the beaches were owned by the state. Many people informed Baalen about Dogan’s genesis, his past as a DS agent, and his recognition that he was “the instrument in power that distributes portions of the companies in the country.”
The head of the ALDE group in the European Parliament, Dacian Ciolos, initially defended Dogan, but later admitted this as a mistake, writing:
“Thank you for all the messages regarding my tweet about the events in Bulgaria. I understood you well. With the additional details about the situation and after analyzing the facts, it really turns out that they were not well reflected. As always, the rule of law is and will continue to be my battle. “
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