Ta otkrića dovela su do špekulacija u lokalnim medijima o tome da je svrha tog, kako ga je Petkov opisao, "radnog sastanka", bila da se taj dvojac nagovori da prestane pucati u pripadnike jedne suparničke bande pred samo stupanje Bugarske u EU u januaru 2007.
The revelations prompted speculations in the local media that the purpose of what Petkov had described as a "working meeting" was to persuade the duo to stop shooting members of a rival gang in the run-up to Bulgaria's EU entry in January 2007.