Crime – The Natural State of Affairs

News in Bulgaria has long resembled a crime chronicle. All media keep on pouring out detailed information about different crimes – children run over at pedestrian crossings, crime bosses killed in the street, corruption at the high levels of power, raped and robbed elderly people, young people killed for no apparent reason at all, drug trafficking, prostitution, car thefts, disgusting treatment of employees by their employers… A very, very sad and long chronicle! What is even sadder is that there is an undeniable link between all these crimes. The fact that they go unpunished! The three powers – legislative, executive and judicial have a special attitude towards that. Every single one of them is placed in a position of action or inaction to the benefit of the criminals.

 

Almost half of all Bulgarians do not trust the police while only 5% have expressed their belief in the judicial system. According to sociologists, the lack of security further increases the feeling that there is a crisis in the country, while people continue to accept that ‘Bulgaria has never recovered from the crisis’. The majority of people in their twenties, most of whom have spent their lives in a state of constant stress, insecurity and poverty, perceive this situation as ‘the natural state of affairs’.

 

A crime of this type was committed in Kostinbrod on January 11^th and 12^th, 1998. Then, the manager of the Olineza factory Hristo Krastev and the businessman Stanimir Zharkov – the owner of a firm manufacturing packaging for the lyutenitsa and mayonnaise factory – beat up 17 employees. According to their later explanations, the two of them suspected the employees of systematically stealing from the factory. This is the reason they called some ‘wrestlers’ and together beat up the employees. But this, apparently, did not give them sufficient satisfaction. The beating turned into a perversion because the thugs stripped their victims naked, burned their genitalia with newspapers set on fire and put out cigarette stubs on their bodies. The outrage continued for 48 hours. On the evening of January the 11^th they beat up the first night shift and, on the next night, the second night shift.

 

After the punitive action, the workers were forced to pay between 200,000 and 250,000 old Bulgarian leva, two Lada vehicles and golden jewelry. Supposedly, in payment for stealing mayonnaise.

 

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