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Young Bulgarians protest outside the main Court building in downtown Sofia against the “not guilty” verdict of the Veliko Turnovo Appellate Court in the Borilski murder case. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
France is initiating a parallel court trial of the case involving the high-profile murder of Bulgarian Sorbonne student, Martin Borilski.
The French Appellate Court decided Friday to try in a Paris Penal Court the two main suspects - Bulgarian citizens, Georgi Zheliazkov and Stoyan Stoichkov aka Barona (The Baron).
The French trial is scheduled to start in the beginning of 2010.
In the summer of 2000, French firefighters discovered the brutally murdered Borilski in his apartment in Paris. His body was tied down with a sweater, and his skull was broken with a dumbbell. There were 93 stabbing wounds on his corpse.
The two alleged killers, Georgi Zheliazkov and Stoyan Stoichkov, were acquitted by the first two Bulgarian instances - the Shumen District Court and the Veliko Turnovo Appellate Court.
In the beginning of March 2009, Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassations returned the "Borilski" murder case to the Appellate Court in the city of Veliko Tarnovo for retrial.
The Supreme Court magistrates based their decision on the lack of motives of the Appellate Court for the "not guilty" verdict. They further pointed out significant violations in the ways evidence has been collected, verified, analyzed and admitted and the fact that the financial state of the alleged perpetrators has not been investigated after July 18, 2000.
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