August 20 (BTA) - The chairman of the temporary
parliamentary committee for investigation of police violence and
 wiretapping during last year's protests, Nikolay Hadjigenov,
referred to European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi, the chairman
 of the LIBE Committee Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar and other
European institutions and human rights organizations, in
connection with Veronika Trifonova, who is currently serving as
European Delegated Prosecutor from the Bulgarian quota.
According to Hadjigenov, Trifonova has missed unprecedented
police violence. This was said by him in a press release to the
media on Friday.

The controversial footage from security cameras under the
columns of the Council of Ministers that captured police
officers beating up peacefully protesting young people on the
evening of July 10, 2020, was covered up by the Bulgarian
authorities for almost 13 months and was recovered by
Hadjigenov's committee. The footage has been circulating news
media and social networks in the passed week and has shaken the
Bulgarian community. Despite the numerous testimonies and
evidence for this violence, Trifonova terminated the case file
due to lack of crime, Hadjigenov said. This is a form of
complicity in a crime against justice,argued Hadjigenov, who
also served as legal council for some of the young people
injured in the beating.

Hadjigenov also sent letters regarding the case to UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria, Council
of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejcinovic-Buric, EC
Vice-President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova, EU
Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders. and Salla Saastamoinen, EC
 Director for Civil and Commercial Justice.

[On August 18 The Sofia Regional Prosecution Office (SPRO)
published prosecutor Veronica Trifonova's position on the case.
SRPO sharply criticized the insinuations made by caretaker
Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, who attacked Trifonova for
refusing to initiate pretrial proceedings in connection with
police brutality against two anti-government protesters in Sofia
 on July 10, 2020]. RY/DT

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