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Foreign Ministry sends condolences to relatives of French scientist Luc Montagnier

Prof. Luc Montagnier at the 12th international conference on "Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water" organized in Bulgaria in the autumn of 2017
Photo: BGNES-archive

The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a condolence address to the relatives and colleagues of prominent French Nobel-winning scientist and friend of Bulgaria Prof. Luc Montagnier. The world-renowned virologist, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for co-discovering the HIV virus, died at the age of 89 on February 8.

"We will never forget that in a difficult time for our country, Prof. Montagnier, with his scientific authority and big heart, stood behind the cause of the Bulgarian nurses, unjustly accused of inhumane crimes by an already denied regime. Prof. Luc Montagnier will forever remain in the hearts of Bulgarians as one of the greatest humanists of his time. Let us honour his memory!" the statement reads. 

Bulgaria is deeply grateful to the famous French scientist for his commitment to the release of the Bulgarian nurses convicted by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. With his scientific expertise, Prof. Montagnier proved that the Bulgarians did not cause the infection of 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus and are innocent.



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