Bulgaria's Judicial Council Makes New Controversial Appointment
Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) appointed Thursday Judge Nelly Batanova as Chair of the Shumen District Court.
Georgi Zhelyazkov and Stoyan Stoichkov, the convicted murderers of Bulgarian Sorbonne student Martin Borilski, have turned themselves in to court security officers early Monday.
Zhelyazkov and Stoichkov reportedly arrived at 08:00 Monday in a Varna court and gave themselves up to the security guards. They cam to the court along with their lawyer and the father of one of the perpetrators and have now been escorted to the Varna prison.
A State-wide arrest warrant was issued for Zhelyazkov and Stoichkov, the police in the Black sea capital of Varna reported after they could not be found by the authorities on February 6.
On February 4, Zhelyazkov and Stoichkov were sentenced by the Veliko Tarnovo Appellate Court to 19 and 17 years in prison, respectively, for the savage murder of Bulgarian Sorbonne student Martin Borilski in Paris in 2000.
In the summer of 2000, French firefighters discovered the brutally murdered Martin 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.
Zheliazkov, who is the son of a prominent Varna lawyer, and Stoichkov, were acquitted by the first two Bulgarian trials- in the Shumen District Court and the Veliko Turnovo Appellate Court. However, amidst the pressure of protest rallies and stark remarks on the part of French Ambassador to Bulgaria, Etienne de Poncins, at 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.
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