Varna Man Setting Himself on Fire Turns Bulgarian Jan Palach

An employee of the City Hall of Bulgaria's Varna had found and taken away a poster definitely disclosing the man who set himself of fire just hours before the resignation of the Cabinet "Borisov" had demanded the ousting of the local mayor.

The spokesperson of the Varna Prosecutor's Office, Desislava Yotova, has confirmed the information for the Dnevnik online news agency.

Plamen Goranov, 36, set himself on fire a little after 7:30 am Wednesday in front of Varna's municipality. A meeting against Varna politicians and impossibly high utility bills gathered thousands of demonstrators later in the day.

Eyewitnesses say they heard the man screaming as the flames overcame him "Kiro, Kiro, today I had to be in Antalya." They tried to help the man with a fire extinguisher and called the 112 emergency hotline.

The name Kiro is diminutive from Kiril. Fourth-term Varna Mayor's name is Kiril Yordanov.

Goranov is listed in the Naval Hospital and remains in critical condition with 80% burns on his body. He has also sustained severe lung damage and is on artificial coma. The doctors are not very optimistic about the outcome.

Several hours after the tragic incident, rumors began spreading quickly that the man was carrying the said poster, demanding the Mayor's resignation, and that the poster quickly disappeared as citizens were busy helping the victim.

The Prosecutor's office spokesperson told the Dnevnik correspondent in Varna, Spas Spassov, the authorities learned about the poster from the media and their first search failed to locate it since none of the questioned policemen and municipal employees seemed to know anything about it. However, on February 20th, the last interrogated witness has mentioned that such poster had been found at the scene and the ensuing search discovered it with a municipal employee. The prosecution has seized the poster which reads: "Resignation of Kiro and all municipal councilors by 5 pm on February 20, 2013."

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