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Viktoria Marinova killed: Bulgarian journalist's rape and murder was 'a warning

Viktoria Marinova's body was found in a park after she suffered blows to the head and was suffocated, mostly likely in daylight.Ms Marinova had presented a recently relaunched current affairs programme called Detector for the TVN television channel in Ruse. The first episode, which aired on 30 September, had interviews with investigative journalists Dimitar Stoyanov from the Bivol.bg website and Attila Biro from the Romanian Rise Project. It was about an investigation into alleged fraud involving EU funds linked to big businessmen and politicians. Officials and the police said there was no evidence to suggest Ms Marinova's murder was related to her work and there was no information about her being threatened. But Bivol.bg owner Asen Yordanov said he had received credible information his journalists were in danger of being assaulted because of the investigation that featured on Ms Marinova's show.