Death of a student after 93 stab wounds – killer is in prison 10 instead of 19 – has changed

Georgi Zhelyazkov, the second to be convicted of the brutal murder of Martin Borilski, already had another value system and did not
what it means to be behind bars for the verdict imposed after the intervention of the EC and France

He was released 5 years earlier and his accomplice Stoyan Stoichkov

Twenty years after the murder of Martin Borilski, the case finally ended on Monday, when the court released the second perpetrator of the crime, Georgi Zhelyazkov, early. He was serving a 19-year sentence for a student murdered in 2000.
According to the court, Georgi Zhelyazkov’s stay in prison is already unnecessary and unjustified in public. In addition, the 41-year-old has served half his sentence. He has been in prison for 10 years and 8 months since he was 19, and he has been behind bars for 3 and a half years. Thus, Zhelyazkov saves another 5 years in prison and in the next 3 years he will meet with a probation officer. According to the court, Zhelyazkov “changed his value system in accordance with the rules of morality, good manners and the law.”
The same happened with the other convict in the Borilski case, Stoyan Stoichkov. On February 20, he was also released 5 years earlier.
Martin Borilski was murdered in his Paris apartment on July 18, 2000. He was found by his friends, who called him on the phone, but he did not respond.
The whole house was covered in blood and 93 stab wounds were counted in the boy’s body. His hands were tied with a sweater and his nose and jaw were broken with a dumbbell. According to the results of the autopsy, death occurred two days earlier.
The French police investigation points to suspects as Georgi Zhelyazkov and Stoyan Stoichkov, who were then 21 and 20 years old and know Borilski. Together they studied at a secondary school in Varna.
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at the crime scene. Among the main evidence of the prosecution are biological traces found by Georgi Zhelyazkov on bloody clothes, in Borilski’s apartment and under the victim’s fingernails.
Stoichkov’s DNA was also found on bloody jeans in Martin’s Paris apartment.
The prosecution relied on a number of other circumstantial evidence in support of the prosecution. For example, that Boryski’s cell phone was in Montpellier hours after his murder, and Zhelyazkov was caught traveling without a ticket that night on the Paris-Montpellier train. According to the prosecution, the phone was activated in Bulgaria by Zhelyazkov.
The prosecution claims that the murder was committed for selfish purposes; In addition to the phone, Borilski’s credit cards also disappeared and his pockets were searched. Martin had no enemies, his colleagues and friends describe him as an honest, sociable and radiant boy.
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French investigators visited the maritime capital several times to question them. The French prosecutor’s office brought charges against them and demanded their arrest to stand trial in Paris. The two were not detained in Bulgaria, but were released on bail. A trial was never held in Paris. From there they sent the evidence to our country and the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office prepared an accusation against the young people. As they are residents of Varna, the case had to be heard in the maritime capital. However, local prosecutors and judges were recused because of Georgi’s father, who is a former deputy director of the city’s investigation service and has contacted all of them. Therefore, the case was sent to Shumen, where in 2008 a District Court panel acquitted him for lack of evidence. In the courtroom, Zhelyazkov and Stoichkov explained that they were in Borilski’s apartment when two unknown men attacked him with a knife. However, they did not intervene and left, as their compatriot wanted to get along with his attackers on his own. The acquittals were also confirmed by the Veliko Tarnovo Court of Appeal. The court ruling sparked strong reactions in France. His ambassador to Bulgaria was involved in the case, French lawyers insisted on the intervention of then-President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the process was monitored by the European Commission. There were also protests from Borilski’s family and friends in front of the Sofia Courthouse. The Supreme Court then overturned the acquittals and referred the case for a new trial. So it turned out. Zhelyazkov and Stoichkov were sentenced to 19 and 17 years in prison exactly 10 years ago, then they both went to prison and are free today.