Emil Emilov
February 9, 2007
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia News Agency
(Sofia, Bulgaria)
February 9, 2007

Bulgarian Taxi Driver Killer Makes Full Confessions

Crime: 9 February 2007, Friday.

Bulgarian police arrested the killer of the taxi driver, who was 
murdered in the early hours of Friday.

The murderer is the 27-year-old Sofia citizen Georgi Peykov.

He made full written confessions after the arrest and even took 
police to the place where he had thrown the knife with which he 
stabbed the taxi driver.

Peykov hired the cab in downtown Sofia to take him to Lyulin 
neighbourhood. When he saw the bill of BGN 15, he realised he 
didn't have the money and tried to escape. The driver Emil 
Emilov attempted to stop him but the killer took out a knife and 
stabbed the driver in the stomach. Than ran away.

Emilov died minutes later, still driving the car, which at the 
moment of his death bumped into a street bin.

The murderer was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 
police said.

Peykov was found and arrested in less than 12 hours.

During the whole day taxis blocked Sofia as drivers gathered to 
protest in the wake of the murder of their colleague last night. 
The taxi drivers demanded legislative guarantees for their 
security at work.

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The Sofia Weekly
Sophia, Bulgaria

1 Seized in Taxi Driver Assault in Bulgaria's Burgas

10 February 2007, Saturday

Police in the coastal town of Burgas arrested a young man, who attacked and injured a taxi driver last month.

Chavdar Ivanov, 22, was declared wanted more than half a month ago and found by the police in the district where he lives.

Ivanov stabbed with a knife taxi driver Todor Todorov on January 23 as he tried to get away without paying his bill.

The same story, but with a tragic ending, unfolded in the early hours of Friday in Sofia and made more than a thousand of taxi drivers take to the streets to demand legislative guarantees for their security at work.

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Sofia News Agency
(Sofia, Bulgaria)
February 13, 2007

Bulgaria Buries Murdered Taxi Driver

Crime: 13 February 2007, Tuesday.

The taxi driver, who was stabbed to death few days ago in Sofia, 
was buried on Tuesday.

The funeral took place at the Sofia central cemetery.

Emil Emilov was accompanied to his last resting place by 
dozens of his colleagues, who staged a rally of taxis.

The police did not allow other cars to break the yellow rally in 
capital's streets.

Emil Emilov, 51, employee of OK Supertrans Company, was 
killed on Friday while driving the taxi. The murder triggered 
massive protests of hundreds of his colleagues.

Later in the day, 27-year-old Georgi Peykov confessed to the 
murder. Now the killer is behind bars and is awaiting a trial.

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Sofia News Agency
(Sofia, Bulgaria)
February 13, 2007

onfessed Killer of Bulgarian Taxi Driver May be Innocent

Crime: 13 February 2007, Tuesday.

The killer, who was arrested for the murder of the taxi driver on 
Friday, is innocent, a witness of the accident claimed.

The eyewitness made his statement just four days after the 
murder in the Tuesday morning broadcast of the Nova TV 
channel.

Later in the day, however, the Interior Minister Rumen Petkov 
denied the additional information, saying he was "offended".

The witness said he was at the spot together with a friend when 
the taxi crashed in a street dustbin and went to see what was 
going on. He saw two individuals running out of the car. One of 
them hid between the residential blocks, the other went in the 
opposite direction.

He and his friend immediately stopped another cab to report for 
the crime, as this was the first person they saw passing nearby.

The witness is a student, who was going home after a Friday 
night out. He had been just 10 metres away from the crashed 
taxi. He also said it was too dark to see the criminals' faces but 
he was sure the arrested Georgi Peykov was not the killer.

Police has still not questioned the student on the case.

There is another witness, but this does not change the 
investigation, as the knife of the murder was found and Peykov 
confessed for the crime, spokeswoman of the Prosecutor's 
Office commented.

The alleged killer is now behind bars and is awaiting a trial.

Taxi driver Emil Emilov was killed in the early hours of last 
week's Friday night. He was stabbed with a knife. Taxi drivers 
blocked downtown Sofia during the whole day, demanding the 
killer to be arrested the same day.

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Sofia News Agency
(Sofia, Bulgaria)
July 4, 2007

Bulgarian Court Hears Cabby Murder Case

4 July 2007, Wednesday

Sofia City Court is to hold Wednesday the first hearing on the 
case on the murder of the taxi driver Emil Emilov, who was 
stabbed to death on February 9.

The killer - Georgi Peykov, 28, made full written confessions 
when he was arrested less than 12 hours after committing the 
crime. He even took police to the place where he had thrown the 
knife with which he stabbed the taxi driver.

Peykov hired the cab in downtown Sofia to take him to Lyulin 
neighbourhood. When he saw the bill of BGN 15, he realised he 
didn't have the money and tried to escape. The driver Emil 
Emilov attempted to stop him but the killer took out a knife and 
stabbed the driver in the stomach. Than ran away.

Emilov died minutes later, still driving the car, which at the 
moment of his death bumped into a street bin.

The murderer was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 
police said.

During the following few days taxis blocked Sofia as drivers 
gathered to protest over the murder of their colleague. The taxi 
drivers demanded legislative guarantees for their security at 
work.

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