2024-08-03 07:13:38
The drug, whose traces disappear after 3 hours, was discovered because of the quick reaction of judge Pavel Panov – son of the head of the Constitutional Court
Alexander Petrunov was drugged with cocaine at the time of the accident, in which he injured his children, himself, his companion and a pedestrian. He lost control of the Beemwe he bought on Thursday morning and broke 2 rows of safety pegs around 6 p.m. the same day, before crashing into a building next to the turning point of tram 20 in Sofia.
After the crash, Petrunov, who has 18 criminal records, refused a drug test. Therefore, the prosecutor’s office requested it from the court. Only an hour after the attack, Judge Pavel Panov of the Sofia District Court allowed her. His mother is the head of the CS Pavlina Panova. The magistrate’s quick response is key because cocaine disappears from the blood in less than 3 hours. He was the judge on duty, and criminal experts and prosecutors comment that if another magistrate had been on duty, it could have taken longer for Petrunov to come out clean.
The 42-year-old man was accused of causing grievous bodily harm to the 26-year-old pedestrian while driving under the influence of drugs. The driver is still in hospital, but after his stay there he will be detained for 72 hours and will be asked to be permanently arrested.
Petrunov is a serial traffic law violator. There are 9 speeding fines with a total value of BGN 1,750. They were all handed over to him, but the 42-year-old man did not pay them. This is not grounds for taking away his license. The driver’s license is only revoked if a person exceeds the speed limit by more than 50 km/h in a populated area. Petrunov’s violations are mostly between 20 and 30 km/h over the limit. Now his license, which was issued in Mexico, will be taken for 2 years because he refused a drug test on the spot. He will also pay a fine of BGN 2,000. And because his blood test is positive, he will have to pay the levy equivalent of the car. She did not act in his name.
He has no permanent address in Bulgaria. Constantly traveled to Mexico. The Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office will request his permanent arrest. He could get 1 to 6 years on the charges against him.
Petrunov was convicted, mainly for theft. However, his last sentence was from 2010, so he was legally rehabilitated and his record is kept clean. The man does not have a job in Bulgaria, it has not been established where the money with which he bought the beemvet came from.
He will also be held liable for the other bodily harm he caused. This will be done at a later stage as medical documents are awaited to establish their extent.
Meanwhile, on Friday morning there was another accident at the entrance to Sofia. A 29-year-old man died near it after a car and a shooting range collided at the 6th kilometer of the “Trakiya” highway in the direction of the capital. One of the passengers died on the spot. Emergency services reported that the victim was the son of the car driver. A mother and her two children were traveling in the back seat. They were not injured.