Vasil Terziev: I knew them. Ivo, Decho and Plamen. Personally. I donated funds for their electric bikes

The mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, issued an emergency announcement about the triple murder in Petrokhan.

Here is what he writes:

I knew them. Ivo, Decho and Plamen. Personally.

I supported their cause, including for their own sake – personally.

And I live through what happened.

I see what is being written today – paramilitaries, sectarians, human trafficking networks, conspiracies. I also see how, according to a textbook, using the best KGB methods, a “story” is put together in 24 hours, which then sticks to me:

anonymous profile -> convenient speaker -> yellow media -> national air.

Same scheme. No facts. No shame.

Instead of asking the real questions, a convenient culprit is sought.

Does anyone wonder why life returned to the mountain?

Why were there deer, wolves, bears again?

Is this a coincidence – or is it the result of years of daily efforts against poachers who kill 10-15 animals at a time – for pleasure?

Did the woodcutters disappear by accident?

Or was it the result of a consistent battle to preserve a 200-300-year-old beech forest – a forest that local mobsters and DPS-structures had openly vowed would be cut down?

Will anyone ask about the migrant channels they were helping the Border Patrol to crack down on?

These are the real questions.

And the answers are clear and verifiable.

Their activities were carried out with the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and within the framework of the law.

What and why I had given them became important only to divert attention from the real subject and to shift the responsibility from the investigators.

I answer: I have helped them openly, among many others…