Drawing: Remembering the Slain Journalists. Victoria Marinova.
Drawing: Remembering the Slain Journalists. Victoria Marinova. Bulgarian journalist. Sept 7, 1988-Oct 6, 2018. Media: Pencil, 9" x 12" mixed media paper. Image tinted digitally.
Victoria Marinova was the administrative director of TVN Television in Ruse, Bulgaria. She was 30 years old, married with one child. On October 6, she went running in a popular public park. The following afternoon her mutilated body was found. She had been brutally raped and murdered.
Marinova had recently televised the first part of a current affairs program that exposed widespread corruption and EU fund fraud perpetrated by international big businessmen and politicians.
Authorities recently arrested a Bulgarian man in Germany and have dismissed claims Marinova’s murder was linked to her reporting. Her death is still being mourned throughout Bulgaria and the world.
Remembering the Slain Journalists:
R. I. P.
R. I. P.
- Kim Wall, Swedish, Mar 23, 1987-Aug 10 or 11, 2017
- Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese, Aug 26, 1964-Oct 16, 2017
- Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova, Slovakian, May 17, 1990-Feb 21, 2018 & April 3, 1990-Feb 21, 2018
- Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian, Oct 13, 1958-Oct 2, 2018
- Victoria Marinova, Bulgarian, Sept 7, 1988-Oct 6, 2018