What I am going to say is not specifically in defense of Ceyhan Ibryamov - in his place could be anyone who was situationally inconvenient for the one who pulls the strings in the state. What I will say is in defense of the democratic legal order. I specify because among the division of “camps” at times we lose our good judgment. And we will still need her.
I have often been told: “Enough with these clubs you keep talking about, it is too abstract”. Here's an example to stop with the abstract. The actions against Ibryamov are a pure sample of Peevski's punitive action, barely disguised at that.
This commented on "Facebook" MP from PP-DB Ivaylo Mirchev.
We have a case of illegal detention and illegal use of special intelligence against a person with (then) still valid immunity. We also have other violations (investigator who also acts as a witness) that we see an attempt to sweep under the carpet with the suggestion that the end (to catch a crime) justifies the means (to circumvent the law).
In this whole ridiculous drama, several institutions are used precisely as clubs, counting on the fact that the public will not delve into the case and no one will pay attention to the contradictions. However, I think that we have no right to remain silent when we see how institutions that we expect to act lawfully and impartially, instead interpret the law as it is presented to their guarantor. First, in the National Assembly, we remove the immunity, then we arrest, that's according to the law. And there is no way to both organize a planned action with marked money and arrest him for “boiled” serious crime.
In addition to seriously undermining the democratic legal order, such actions, paradoxically, make it very difficult for an offender to be convicted. When institutions fail to comply with the law, their actions are then easily overturned in court. And finally, even if the person is really guilty, the real opportunity to successfully bring them to justice is wasted.
The law cannot be a garment that we put on only when we decide the occasion is right. And here it does not matter what we think about Ceyhan Ibryamov. It doesn't even matter if he's guilty. It matters how institutions apply the law. Because if today the law is optional, but not mandatory, tomorrow it may turn out that we don't have a country.