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Plamen Yorgov made souvenir bags in the Pleven prison in 2004. PHOTO: THE AUTHOR
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Plamen Yorgov, who killed three children from Gulyantsi in the summer of 1989, is now a librarian at the Pleven prison. He received the death sentence for the atrocity, which after the moratorium was commuted to life imprisonment. Yorgov is already 65 years old, 31 of them are behind bars.
Years ago, he told 24 Chasa that he did not read thrillers – he was terrified of blood. His teeth were broken by nerves, so in 2 years he went to the dentist 109 times. Yorgov has been serving his sentence in Sofia prison for 10 years. While there, he raised a pigeon with its wings torn off. He took care of the bird for 7 months and let it take off when it recovered. 17 years ago Yorgov made souvenir bags, today he takes care of the library.
He was imprisoned when he was 33 years old. In the early afternoon of July 17, 1989, Yorgov, who was a truck driver at the time, stopped his car on the outskirts of Gulyantsi. He saw 3 children playing and offered to take them to the dam to hunt geese.
Cousins Diana, 12, Elena, 10, and Angel, 8, boarded the cabin. Inside an acacia forest, Yorgov tied the legs of the younger girl and the boy in a common knot with sisal. Before their eyes, he knocked Diana to the ground and raped her. When she cried, he wrapped his fingers around her neck. Then he strangled Elena and Angel. He started to leave, but something in his body seemed to move. He cut the cousins’ throats with a knife – where the carotid artery pulsates, he stabbed them in the chest. That same evening, at about 9.30 pm, he told his parents that he was going on a moped to visit the neighboring village. On the way he took a straight shovel and went to the acacia forest. He dug 3 shallow graves and laid the corpses about 25 cm away. In order not to be discovered, he decided to flee abroad.
On August 4, he was caught trying to cross the border illegally. During his detention, he confessed to the triple murder.
“I stabbed them alive and ran away from looking at the blood,” Yorgov told investigators. His last word before the Pleven District Court in 1990 was: “I killed people. I want my death sentence to be carried out in public! ”
However, enforcement was postponed due to the moratorium. In March 2004, Yorgov and Georgi Belchinov condemned Bulgaria in Strasbourg. He received 3,000 euros in compensation for “strict isolation during the moratorium when he had no opportunity for human contact.”
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