Bulgaria's Top Cop vs Reality

Novinite Insider » EDITORIAL | Author: Nikola Petrov |September 9, 2011, Friday // 10:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Top Cop vs Reality

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has counted that there are exactly 262 organized crime groups active in Bulgaria.

Additionally, he has claimed that 121 individuals have been neutralized. ("Individuals" is a police slang term Tsvetanov uses quite often. It is somewhat derogatory for "people".)

Two questions pop up in my mind – what does "neutralised" mean in this context, and, if the Bulgarian police know so well who the gangsters are, why are they not in jail?

"We catch them, the judicial system lets them go," is the mantra that Tsvetanov and his boss, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, have been repeating for a while. But Bulgarians do not buy it any longer, and EU officials have criticized the Interior Minister for dissing the courts.

And one can truly see that Tsvetanov hates the concept of courts by the way he prefers to use "murderer" and "perpetrator" instead of "suspect". In his dream world, everyone whom he considers an criminal would go behind bars, no need of collecting evidence – but in reality, he can only count.

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