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In the summer of 2000, French firefighters discovered the brutally murdered Bulgarian Sorbonne student, Martin Borilski, in his apartment in Paris. Photo by podpiski.org
The Veliko Tarnovo Appellate Court has delayed the hearing into the Borilski murder case until October 19.
Judge Milcho Vanchev delayed the start of the hearing after receiving a legal request from the mother of the murdered Martin Borilski to delay the case as she has previously arranged engagements abroad.
The Court was set to start a new hearing Monday into the ‘Borilski' murder case, which is being closely followed in Bulgaria and France.
Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassations returned the case to Veliko Tarnovo on May 18 after finding previous trials had problems over the way evidence had been collected, verified, analyzed and admitted.
In the summer of 2000, French firefighters discovered the brutally murdered Bulgarian Sorbonne student, 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 stab wounds on his corpse.
The two alleged killers, Georgi Zheliazkov and Stoyan Stoichkov aka Barona (the Baron) were acquitted by the first two trials, in the Shumen District Court and the Veliko Tarnovo Appellate Court.
The Veliko Tarnovo Appellate Court previously threw out the case, suggesting that the two defendants did not have a motive for the murder of a student at such prestigious school.
Meanwhile, The French Appellate Court decided on June 12 to run a parallel trial in Paris Penal Court of the two main suspects.
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