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GERB MEP Emil Radev
After the prosecution and the GERB website, he published misleading information related to the hearing of the Bulgarian representatives by the subcommittee on the rule of law before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament. Citing information from MEP Emil Radev, he claims that MEPs have condemned the use of gallows, coffins and body bags during protests in Bulgaria. However, Radev, who was not present at the meeting, based his conclusion on “the reply of the EP colleagues”.
On his Facebook account, Euractiv journalist Georgi Gotev called the information “fake news”. He points out that, in fact, it was not the MEPs who spoke about the use of gallows, coffins and bags for the corpses of the protests in Bulgaria, but one of the representatives of Bulgaria, the president of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination Ana Dzhumalieva . He said he was very concerned about the use of hate speech, the construction of a gallows in front of Boyko Borissov’s house and in front of the parliament.
MEPs said they were surprised that she was not really concerned about the rights of the protesters, but had set out to defend the government, which has the tools to defend itself, while the protesters and the pressure on them went unnoticed by the CPD. Gotev said. “They were surprised that she considered the prime minister and the government victims, not the protesters, who have been the target of numerous attacks and insults,” he said.
There are other strange statements in the post on the GERB website. He says that among the issues discussed is the draft amendments to the Constitution presented by GERB. “It was recognized that this was the only way that the recommendations of the Venice Commission and GRECO could be fully implemented,” the text says.
According to Dnevnik, those present at the meeting said that the Venice Commission could not discuss anything because they were not familiar with such a project.
Emil Radev was not available for comment on his mobile phone. GERB publicist Nikola Nikolov told Dnevnik that he had said what Emil Radev had to say and had nothing more to say.
A day earlier, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that “the discussion was organized at the suggestion of Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev to discuss current challenges before the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria in the context of increased political and media pressure.” However, MEP Radan Kanev replied that it was a “outright and outrageous lie”. “The hearing was organized by the Dutch MEP Sophie In’t Veld, chair of the subcommittee, as a preparatory stage in organizing a plenary debate on the institutional crisis in Bulgaria,” she wrote on her Facebook account.
Yesterday, in front of Dnevnik Krassimir Kanev of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, who participated in the meeting, he summarized what happened: Critical tone of the European institutions and questions about the place and status of the prosecution, the responsibility of the Attorney General and public policy from the state prosecutor’s office: these were some of the main issues discussed during today’s debate in the European Parliament on the situation in Bulgaria in recent months.
