/ world today news/ On September 9, Geshev had breakfast at the main restaurant in Plovdiv! And this is the very truth, however paradoxical it may sound – precisely on the morning of September 9, 1944, when Plovdiv was boiling with partisans and political prisoners, the most hated man in the country – the haunt of the political police, Geshev, calmly had breakfast meters from the Main street in front of the hotel.
Even Angel Wagenstein remembers seeing him, but he could not at all suppose that the hated policeman would eat meekly, thinking that he recognized himself. And Geshev, together with police inspector from the police directorate Lyuben Dimitrov and regional police chief in Plovdiv Ivan Fichev, had an arranged channel for crossing the border with Turkey.
The non-commissioned officer Amutliev leads them to the border itself and explains to them where they should go in order not to run into a border guard post. The three leave in a column, at a distance of about thirty meters from each other. However, at a fork in the path, Geshev, who is the guide, goes in the wrong direction and a hundred meters away they are startled by a clipped command: “Stop! Hands up!” And here the super policeman makes a gross mistake: instead of negotiating with the border guards, he pulls out a gun and shoots three times. After that, Schmeiser cuts follow and the 50-year-old Geshev falls with four bullets in his body. The other two run away, but only hours later are caught by local village volunteers.
That’s it.
The then Minister of the Interior, Anton Yugov, ordered Rusi Hristozov, / a prominent communist figure, later to become Director of the People’s Militia and Minister of the Interior / who was in Plovdiv, to go and identify the body. When they are convinced that it really is Geshev, the three decide to remain silent.
The explanation is simple: when they find out that Geshev is dead, the arrested heads of State Security and the police will transfer all the blame to him and hide their “merits”.
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