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Bulgaria: Journalist Viktoria Marinova Found Raped and Murdered

HeadlineOct 08, 2018

In Bulgaria, police found the body of a 30-year-old journalist Saturday in the northern town of Ruse, after she disappeared shortly after reporting on the misuse of EU funds by local authorities. Police say Viktoria Marinova’s body showed signs she’d been raped, bludgeoned in the head and suffocated. She’s the third journalist murdered in the European Union over the past year.

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