A car was set on fire in the early hours of August 9 in the capital's "Nadezhda" district. The loud explosion woke up Gergana Pavlova, the owner of the burning vehicle, around 2:30 am. Immediately after the accident, she noticed that her car was engulfed in flames and hurried to call the police and emergency services.
In an interview for the program “Hello, Bulgaria” on "New TV" Pavlova told the details of the experience: “On August 9, around 2:30 in the morning, I woke up to a loud thunder. I heard a man's voice saying that a car was on fire. I saw that it was my car and quickly got out. The police called me and asked me if I had a gas system. They had called 112. But there was nothing more to be done. Everything was on fire.”
However, the situation takes a more sinister turn after reviewing the security camera footage. A silhouette can be seen on them, which, according to initial assumptions, looks like a woman. However, Pavlova emphasized that there are doubts that the figure could be that of a man, based on the testimony of witnesses who were nearby.
The owner of the car expressed her doubts that the fire was intentional. “I am not a conflicted person. I am new in the neighborhood, in this part of “Nadezhda”. I have no disputes, no unresolved financial issues. The only person I'm currently dating is my daughter's father, who we've been separated from for two years. On his own initiative, he filed a lawsuit for the division of a shared apartment. At the beginning of the year he started asking for money he thought I owed him for a shared car we acquired while living together. He repeatedly harassed me at my workplace asking for money, she said.