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#3407809 at 2018-10-09 14:29:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4319 DJT Trolls the Kavanaugh Protesters Edition
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Olaf, the EU's anti-fraud watchdog, said it was "aware of allegations concerning the possible misuse of EU funds in Bulgaria that have been brought to light by journalists in recent weeks". It said it launched a preliminary assessment last month of whether it should mount an investigation into the matter.
The head of Bulgaria's state prosecution service, Nice, Sotir Tsatsarov, told a news conference on Tuesday in Ruse: "We can't say whether the main motive [for the killing] was her journalistic work or the theme of her TV shows."
Although unrelated to corruption, 30-year-old Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall was brutally murdered by Danish inventor Peter Madsen in August last year, as she interviewed him on his home made submarine.
Victims of violence
Viktoria Marinova
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The Bulgarian journalist was a presenter and administrative director at TVN, a popular local station, in the northern city of Ruse. According to Mladen Marinov, Bulgarian interior minister, Marinova had been raped and died from asphyxiation and head injuries.
Colleagues at TVN, a private channel, said Marinova, 30, went jogging on Saturday to prepare for a road race.
Hosting the first episode of a show, Lie-Detector, on September 30, the presenter introduced an interview with two reporters from Rise Project, a Romanian group of investigative reporters and activists, and Bivol, a similar Bulgarian organisation, who were probing suspected embezzlement of EU structural funds by local contractors.
The reporters were arrested by Bulgarian police last month while trying to film people connected with the investigation but were freed several hours later following the intervention of Romanian authorities.
Jan Kuciak
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The 27-year-old Slovakian investigative journalist and his fiancée were found dead at their house in Velka Maca, about 50km east of Slovakia's capital, Bratislava, in February. They had both been shot.
Kuciak had worked for the Aktuality.sk news website for three years and had written a number of articles on tax evasion.
Tibor Gaspar, Slovakia's police chief, said the "most likely motive" for the killings was related to Kuciak's investigative activities, but he did not provide further details.
Commenting at the time, Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said: "The EU cannot accept that a journalist is killed for doing his job?.?.?.?the European Parliament will not rest until justice is done."
Slovak prosecutors have charged four people in connection with Kuciak's murder and said last week that they could charge more people in future.
Daphne Caruana Galizia
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The high-profile Maltese investigative journalist was killed in a car bomb explosion in October 2017 in an attack that drew condemnation from around Europe. Caruana Galizia had blogged just before she died about her country's "desperate" corruption problem.
Caruana Galizia had won a wide following, and drawn multiple lawsuits from public figures, for her coverage of alleged corruption across the political spectrum in Malta. Her final blog post ended: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."
Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, condemned the attack in the strongest terms. A spokesman said: "The right of a journalist to investigate, ask uncomfortable questions and report effectively is at the heart of our values and needs to be guaranteed at all times. We trust now that justice will be brought even if this will not be enough to right this wrong."