The District Court in Dupnitsa found the defendants K.H. – an employee at a hospital in Dupnitsa and I.P., guilty of assaulting the journalist Valya Akhchieva and her operator. They started hitting the operator with their hands and feet all over the body and caused him slight bodily injury. This was announced by the press center of the court.
The act was committed with hooligan motives – in a public place, in the building and yard of the hospital, without any reason and behavior on the part of the victim, demonstrating physical force and thus expressing disregard and clear disrespect for society and, in particular, for the human person, added the court.
The two defendants were also found guilty of threatening to kill the television operator, uttering the words: “We will kill you and you have no one to complain to” and this threat aroused in the victim a well-founded fear of its implementation.
The defendant I.P. was also found guilty of threatening to kill the journalist by uttering the words: “We’re going to blow your heads off, now we’re going to kill you”, which also caused a well-founded fear of its execution.
The court imposed on both defendants, who are unconvicted, a common punishment for the crimes committed by them “imprisonment” for a period of nine months each, the execution of which is suspended for a probationary period of three years, starting from the entry of the sentence in effect.
The two defendants were also ordered to pay the costs of the case.
The incident occurred at the private hospital in Dupnitsa, when Ahchieva was investigating the issuance of the death certificate of Angel Hristov, known as one of the so-called Galevi brothers.