"I would like to thank all the people who are here and all those who couldn’t come and are currently at work, including in the courtrooms. I see colleagues and friends with whom I started my career back in 1994. I see people who have dedicated their lives to difficult professions – prosecutor and investigator, and have served and are serving Bulgarian citizens in the fight against crime, paying the price for it. And the price is attacks of all kinds, insults and etc. Price that, unfortunately, our families also pay.
Now I will tell you why we are all "mafia".
We are a mafia because we brought light into the darkness, not in words, but in deeds, as bequeathed to us by the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski.
Because we have shown that we will not allow double standards, some for people with billions and political and media influence and other for other Bulgarians as it has been for decades.
Because we solved the problem with the telephone scams. Because thefts and robberies have decreased by more than 20% in the first five months and we are doing everything possible for people to live in peace without fear that their last savings will be robbed or that they will be killed, raped and set on fire in their own homes.
Because according to the notifications of the Prosecutor's Оffice, over BGN 3 billion have been frozen, without the last media-known cases since the beginning of the year.
Because we stopped the process of Bulgaria becoming a landfill, we stopped the burning of hazardous waste and their burial in our land, with which some earned millions at the cost of the health of every Bulgarian.
Because we arrest drug dealers who poison our children, including protecting them top-level law enforcement officials.
Because for the first time since the democratic changes, we have accused a minister and a deputy minister of the current government and another bunch of officials at different levels in the state hierarchy.
Because cases have been filed in court or because some of the influential and rich people are hiding outside Bulgaria, believing that the law does not apply to them, but applies to the socially weak…… those who they call common people.
This is the reason to be bad for the bad people.
Which means only one thing; we are good for the Bulgarian citizens and society, for those who pay our salaries, and that is the only important thing.It means that we are doing our work well and we have frightened those who do not want the law to be the same for everyone, but only for people without money and influence.
In quotes, normal are the political attacks and the attempts to destroy the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office, albeit under the cover of the struggle for democracy. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.
I think we are all here because the red line has been reached and it is the endangered rule of law, part of which is the independence of the prosecution, as part of the judiciary under the Bulgarian Constitution.
We are also here to say that we, prosecutors, investigators and judicial officials, like the sixteenth US President Abraham Lincoln, can go slowly, but we never go backwards.
I am proud to have always been a part of you, to have spent my entire professional career as an investigator and prosecutor. It is an honor for me to be the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bulgaria."