It was in October last year, a 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova was assaulted when she was out and jogged in the Bulgarian town of Ruse, on which she was raped and murdered.
the Prosecutor described it as that she was murdered in a ”particularly brutal way”. They also found that the murder had a sexual motive, rather than any connection to the woman's profession.
to Germany, where he was later arrested and handed over to the country. He later admitted the murder, which means he escapes a life sentence.
Viktoria Marinova had a management position at a local tv channel TVN, where she just started a private program for investigative samhällsjournalistik. She is one of four journalists who were murdered in Europe last year.
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