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“For me, this is a judicial farce,” Lazar Kolev said after the court's ruling last week, claiming that he was a scapegoat and did not know the two sisters. Photo by BGNES
The only suspect for the brutal murder of the Belneyski sisters in Bulgaria has gone on hunger strike in protest against what he has called “a judicial farce”.
Sisters Rositsa (18) and Kristina (15) Belneyska went missing in January 2006, after leaving a disco bar in the town of Pazardzhik. The sisters were found dead at the beginning of February near the town of Peshtera.
The magistrates from the District Court in the southern Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik decided at the end of last week that there was enough evidence that the 30-year-old Lazar Kolev has killed the sisters and left him behind bars.
“For me, this is a judicial farce,” Kolev said after the court's ruling, claiming that he was a scapegoat and that he did not know the two sisters.
If the decision is appealed in a three-day period in the Plovdiv Appellate Court, the case would be scheduled for August 26.
The charges against Kolev are based on an expertise, which proves that his DNA material matched completely the DNA found on the bodies of Rositsa and Hristina Belneyski.
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