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The relatives and acquaintances of Andrea from the town of Galiche, who was brutally murdered earlier this year, are holding a protest in front of the Vratsa District Court. The reason is that this Wednesday the case against the minor offender had to start at the bottom. However, this will not happen due to a procedural hurdle.
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The case was postponed due to a private appeal lodged with the Sofia Court of Appeal, most likely by the perpetrator.
“I don’t like things that are happening,” Rumen Assenov, the father of the murdered Andrea, told This Morning.
Assenov learned of the postponement Tuesday from his lawyer. He also told her that the “most serious accusation of rape” had not been accepted, which, according to the father of the murdered Andrea, was “inadmissible” and aimed at “somehow downplaying the crime and helping the perpetrator”.
Assenov’s lawyer wants the most severe punishment for the perpetrator of Andrea’s murder: 12 years for the great crime and another 6 for the others, which is the maximum under the law at the moment. If this is not given to him, they must acquit him and await him with applause in court.
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This is the reason for the organization of the protest, whose objective is to make “the victims of the judiciary fight and defend what must be defended,” Assenov said.
Andrea’s father pointed out that the case had been waited for 9 months and had been handed over shortly before the perpetrator came of age.
Assenov recalled that in his meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, he promised to change the law, so a subscription was started with the support of many people. They want the punishment for the crime not to be linked to the age of the perpetrator. Thus, the upper limit of the sentence will be raised to 20 years, and a 12-year period with the right to reduction will not be guaranteed.
“I waited nine months. It was presented to parliament on January 20,” said Assenov, according to whom the delay in considering the bill is not related to the coronavirus crisis.
Initially, MP Manoil Manev, who introduced the bill, promised to do it quickly, but then stopped responding to their calls, Assenov said.
The speaker of parliament, Tsveta Karayancheva, said that they were awaiting the opinion of legal organizations on the changes in the law, but that, according to Assenov, “it is not an explanation, but a deviation from the subject.”
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