Relatives and friends continue to suffer and seek justice for the Bulgarian family with two young children who died in an intentional fire in the German city of Solingen 10 days ago.
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The 39-year-old Kuncho, his wife Katya, 29, and their two small children – two-year-old Galya and Emily, who was only a six-month-old baby, lost their lives in the flames. Bulgarian Muslims of Turkish origin.
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The authorities in Germany are categorical – it is a matter of deliberate arson. In addition to the deceased family, nine other residents of the same building were taken to hospital.
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Kučno and Galya Zhilovi had been in Germany for only a few weeks. They managed to find shelter with their children in an apartment on the attic floor of a building in Solingen. The building is known for being mostly inhabited by migrants. And fires there are not rare, notes the German newspaper Bild.
Last Sunday, the four were visiting relatives in the nearby city of Gelsenkirchen. You had a carefree time – delicious food, pleasant conversations and lots of fun. Declining their cousins’ invitation to stay the night there – something that would have saved their lives.
In the evening, while the building is quiet and everyone is sleeping, incendiary liquid is scattered in the corridor and a fire is lit. The wooden staircase is quickly engulfed in flames. By the time the fire alarm was activated, the escape route for the families on the third floor and in the attic was already blocked, Deutsche Welle reported.
Another Bulgarian family was accommodated on the third floor, who in the midst of the fire had no other way out than to jump out of the windows, witnesses told Deutsche Welle.
The father with a child in his arms fell on the roof of a parked car, and the mother – on the sidewalk. Minutes before 3 a.m., Kuncho’s relatives heard his voice for the last time – he called his cousins in a panic to seek help. At that moment, the flames had already reached the roof of the building.
German authorities are still unable to say who or who the arsonists are. A 21-year-old man was initially arrested as a suspect, but is again at large due to lack of evidence.
Many Turkish media in the context of this case recalled the tragedy of May 29, 1993 in Solingen, Germany, when four German neo-Nazis set fire to the house of a family of Turkish origin, resulting in the death of five people.
DPS leader Delyan Peevski has alerted our foreign ministry that it must intervene urgently. “Local media are signaling that there is a real risk that the traces of the crime will be covered up and that the culprits will remain undetected and unpunished. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the competent authorities, must take immediate action,” appealed Peevski.
Days after the death of the Bulgarian family, over 700 people went to a mourning procession in Solingen, and the event was widely covered by the German media. Many of the migrants who came to honor the memory of Kuncho, Katya and their children believe that the attempt was actually against all of them. And they say they live in fear because they regularly face hostility because of their origins.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria is working on the case of the severe fire, the institution announced on Saturday evening. The Consulate General of Bulgaria in Frankfurt, the Embassy of our country in Berlin, as well as the Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia, Werner Jostmeier, have been in constant contact with the local authorities since the first days after the tragic event in order to clarify the identity of the victims and the circumstances , leading to their death.
The question of the need for a quick investigation into the causes of the fire was also raised by the ambassador of Bulgaria in Berlin, Grigor Porozhanov, during a bilateral meeting at the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany. Readiness for cooperation was also expressed in the line of police cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated. The Bulgarian authorities officially received information about the identity of the deceased family on April 4.
The remaining Bulgarian citizens injured in the fire are a young family with one child, and our diplomatic representation is in constant contact with the hospital where they are being treated.
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