But Friday’s attack followed allegations of poisoned dogs
For one resident of Vratsa, Friday, January 13, turned out to be critical. Late in the evening, Kiril Petrov, working as a nurse in the emergency center, returns to his home in Mladost district after being on duty.
In front of the entrance to the block where the 37-year-old medic lives, a strong man in a black jacket stops him and asks him for a cigarette. Then she asks him if he is the one poisoning the dogs in the neighborhood.
“Before I answered him that I don’t deal with such things, he hit me with all his might on the face and started to force me with his fists, where he boiled – says Kiril from the hospital room. – He knocked me down, started kicking me, and then searched my backpack to see if I was carrying dog poison.”
A neighbor from the block heard the medic’s screams, saw the beating and immediately called the police.
The beaten man was admitted to the surgical department
to the hospital minutes after the beating because of a laceration to the forehead, a split lip, knocked out teeth, lots of blood and a suspected concussion and hematoma.
In front of the policemen, already in the hospital room and with his wounds sewn up, Petrov tells in detail what he experienced. Therefore, the investigators initially decided that the beating was the result of a domestic scandal and neighbor disputes.
The beaten medic expressed a timid suspicion that the beating might be related to his work in the emergency center.
The police start looking for the attacker. They are also reviewing recordings from a camera opposite the block where Kiril lives.
After detaining Angel A. as a suspect, they re-examined the footage from the cameras of the emergency center, in front of which a group of Roma had gathered on the evening of January 10 after the accident in which 3-year-old Biser was killed and his mother was seriously injured.
Among relatives and acquaintances of the family who tried to break into the emergency center, it turns out that Angel A. was also recorded on camera.
The beaten Kiril was part of the group that arrived at the scene second team
who helped the survivors and took the severely injured mother of the dead child to the intensive care unit. In the accident, the 23-year-old father of the boy, who was driving the car from the village of Lilyache to his native Nefela at over 100 km/h on the wet road, was the least injured.
The car ran off the road and overturned on its roof in a nearby ravine. The infant Biser, who was not in a special child seat, but in his mother’s lap, was trapped under the car and died on the spot.
This was established by Dr. Diana Dimova, who arrived at the head of the first team after receiving a message about a child injured in the disaster.
Later, however, those gathered claimed that the doctor was drunk, was inadequate and therefore failed to save the child. Under the influence of the protesters, the policemen who arrived to guard the center conducted a breathalyzer test on Dr. Dimova and reported 1.44 per mille of alcohol.
However, the doctor declared that the sample had been tampered with and refused to undergo a blood test, arguing that she was not a criminal and had acted completely professionally after the accident.
However, what were the real motives for the beating of the medic Kiril Petrov, has yet to be clarified. According to acquaintances, Angel A. is the cousin of the woman who was seriously injured in the accident.
“After the protests in front of the emergency room because of the death of the child and after the beating on Friday, my colleagues fear for their lives and insist that the teams in the ambulances be accompanied by policemen – said the head of the emergency center in Vratsa, Dr. Galina Lestarska. –
Both doctors and nurses are horrified by the
what is happening and wonder if they will be alive and well
after shift”
According to Dr. Lestarska, this happens when the focus shifts, and instead of the reckless actions of one driver who killed his son and seriously injured his wife, the blame goes to the medical team that went there and did everything they could to rescue the victims and provide them with immediate assistance.
