2024-05-15 16:22:25
- The prosecutor’s workplace accused the Syrian of intentional homicide, who lied for a very long time about being a minor
- The relations of the lifeless are demanding a life sentence
- The flight flying in opposition to the uniforms was stuffed with migrants
111 witnesses and 19 consultants to be questioned through the trial of Omar Adnan, accused of the dying of two Burgas policemen.
That is what the protection of the Syrian demanded on Tuesday through the preliminary listening to within the Burgas District Court docket.
Adnan, who for a very long time claimed that he was not 18 years previous, however the prosecution did all the pieces potential to show that he was of age, shall be tried on widespread grounds. And if convicted, he might face 15 to twenty years in jail and even life in jail.
The households of the 2 policemen Atanas Gradev and Yordan Iliev, who died within the line of obligation, are demanding the heaviest punishment.
Mother and father and youngsters of these killed have been constituted as personal prosecutors
on the case. Nonetheless, civil claims won’t be thought of within the felony case. This shall be performed in separate instances in opposition to the Assure Fund of Bulgaria, for the reason that bus with the migrants didn’t have insurance coverage, lawyer Petar Dimitrov, who represents the Gradevi household, defined to “24 Chasa”.
“I chorus from saying what punishment the prosecutor’s workplace will plead for, let’s examine all of the proof in the midst of the judicial investigation. The established info result in a particular conclusion of an deliberately dedicated crime.
There is no such thing as a worse crime than killing two policemen within the line of obligation,
fully deliberate and cold-blooded”, commented the supervising prosecutor Dimitar Uzunov. He added that the act represents a very critical case.
“The prosecutor’s workplace tried to make clear all of the info from the second the defendant entered the territory of Bulgaria till the second of the crime.
It was established past doubt that the perpetrator was of authorized age. A verbal word was despatched to the embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic, a triple forensic medical examination was performed, there have been additionally different knowledge within the case,” stated prosecutor Uzunov.
He outlined it as the suitable of the protection to launch its model – that the Syrian tried to make a rescue maneuver by turning to the suitable.
“My consumer did not cease due to stress, he thought they have been going to kill him, he was nonetheless in another country,” commented lawyer Kalin Yanev, who lately took over Adnan’s protection. And he requested that the cost be reclassified to a lighter one – “manslaughter by negligence”.
Omar himself didn’t say something through the dispositional listening to, however after transient remarks exchanged with choose Tsveta Popova, it turned clear that
he understands some phrases in Bulgarian
Nonetheless, he was supplied with an interpreter and is predicted to be heard at one of many following hearings. The primary, in essence, was scheduled for June 24 and can start with the questioning of 15 witnesses.
“What the courtroom determined! Nice sorrow, nice misfortune occurred to us,” Atanas Gradev Panayot’s father, who’s a former policeman, muttered on the sidelines. Different relations didn’t need to converse to reporters.
The bloody carnage that claimed the lives of Yordan Iliev and Atanas Gradev occurred at daybreak on August 25, 2022, on the busiest Burgas intersection “Trapezitsa”, by means of which site visitors to the Southern Black Sea passes.
Solely the early hour – round 5 within the morning – is the explanation why there are not any extra victims. Along with the police patrol, the flight with the migrants swept away a kiosk and a bus cease within the pedestrian space of the intersection.
As a substitute of stopping, Omar, who was behind the wheel of the flight carrying 47 migrants, plowed into the police automotive.
The investigation established that the MIA automotive was outfitted with all the required requisites and had its lights on.
The bus was dashing from
about 78 km/h
The intense accident in Burgas occurred after a protracted chase that began on the street Malko Tarnovo – Burgas.
The 47 migrants, together with kids, have been placed on the bus close to the Strandja village of Stoilovo and made to sit down on the ground with their heads down.
Within the Krushevets area of Sozopol, the flight passes a police checkpoint, border guards attempt to cease it for inspection, however Omar disobeys the cease stick and presses the accelerator.
The border guards sign their colleagues from the Poda checkpoint – the checkpoint, which is positioned instantly earlier than Burgas. There they’re already ready for the fugitive bus, nevertheless it once more disobeys and continues at breakneck pace in the direction of the town.
A chase begins – two police automobiles are on the heels of the migrants, and the flight flies to Burgas.
Minutes later he reaches “Trapezitsa” and steps on the policemen
24 hours in the past, investigators revealed that they had video footage displaying Omar shouting “Jihad” and “Allah” as he approached the police patrol, inspired by his confederate Ahmat Moufat.
The clips have been discovered on the telephones of the 2 channelers. Akhmat inspired Omar with the road: “Go on, eradicate the blockade.”
A 12 months in the past, Omar, Akhmat and their third confederate, Abdullah Abdullah, who secured the flight, have been convicted of embezzlement and obtained efficient sentences.
Omar, who repented, was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in jail and a effective of BGN 11,000, and Abdullah was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months in jail and a effective of BGN 18,000.
Akhmat, a minor, bought off the best with a sentence of 1 12 months and 10 months and a public reprimand.