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Bulgaria's chief prosecutor was the target of an assassination attempt, investigators say

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The chief prosecutor and his family were the target of a terrorist act, said the deputy chief prosecutor and director of the National Investigation Borislav Sarafov. At a briefing near the site of the assassination attempt with the motorcade of the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, he said that it was not a matter of intimidation, but of an assassination. Only one accident prevented a death, Sarafov said. 

Authorities investigate incident with the Attorney General's motorcade

The shrapnel bomb, placed by the side of the road at a bend where cars are slowing, made a crater 3 meters in diameter. The explosion with a force of about 3 kg of TNT equivalent moved the armored car with Geshev to the left and drove numerous shrapnel into the trees, added Sarafov.

"I am convinced that we will get to the perpetrators. The state cannot afford to allow such incidents. This is an attack on statehood. It sends a signal to the European partners that Bulgaria cannot protect its institutions. The Prosecutor General is currently in a safe place," Sarafov said.



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