Viktoria Marinova: Suspect in journalist murder extradited Published duration 17 October 2018

image copyright EPA / TVN RUSE image caption Ms Marinova is the third high-profile journalist to be killed in the EU this year

Germany has extradited a man suspected of murdering Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova.

Severin Krasimirov was arrested last week in the German town of Stade, near Hamburg.

Bulgaria's interior minister said Mr Krasimirov's DNA matched evidence recovered from the crime scene.

Ms Marinova was attacked while jogging in a park in her hometown of Ruse on 6 October. She was raped, beaten and died of suffocation.

Bulgarian prosecutors have said there is no evidence to suggest the attack was linked to Ms Marinova's work.

She is the third high-profile journalist to be murdered in the EU in the last year.