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Aged 30, he worked for a local television channel, TVN
Police in Bulgaria are investigating the murder of investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova.
His body was found Saturday in a park in the northern city of Ruse, near the Danube.
It is unclear whether the murder is related to the work of this 30-year-old man in a local TV channel, TVN. An investigation examines his personal and professional life.
His death immediately attracted international condemnation.
"Shocked by the horrific assassination of investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova in Bulgaria," tweeted Harlem Desir, the press freedom representative of the OSCE (Organized Crime and Fraud Reporting) project, of which Ms Marinova was a member.
"Urgent call for a thorough and thorough investigation, officials must be accountable."
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Ms. Marinova is the third senior journalist murdered in the European Union over the past year and the fourth since the beginning of 2017.
Swedish journalist Kim Wall was murdered by Danish inventor Peter Madsen after climbing into his house submarine for an interview in Copenhagen in August 2017.
In October 2017, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb near her home. In February of this year, Slovakian journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova were shot dead.
Ms. Caruana Galizia and Mr. Kuciak were known for their work denouncing corruption. Ms. Marinova's latest work aimed to interview two other Bulgarian journalists, Attila Biro and Dimitar Stoyanov, arrested in September while they were investigating a case of fraud misuse of EU funds.
Ruse Regional Prosecutor Georgy Georgiev said that Ms. Marinova had been hit in the head and suffocated by the fatal attack, adding that "her mobile phone, car keys, glasses and some of her clothes had disappeared ".
According to Reporters with Borders, Bulgaria is considered the worst country in the EU in the field of freedom of the press.
According to the organization, investigative journalists in the country "are often subjected to pressures ranging from simple warnings to acts of intimidation and physical aggression against themselves or their property".
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