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Life imprisonment for two terrorists who carried out an attack against Israelis in Bulgaria in 2012 | Israel today

2020-09-21T09:08:10.775Z


| EuropeA court in Bulgaria has sentenced the two to life in prison, who despite their efforts have never been located • 6 people, 5 of them Israelis, were killed in an explosion on a tourist bus at the airport The remains of the tourist bus against which an explosive device was placed in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 2012 Photo:  AFP A Bulgarian court today (Monday) sentenced Australian flower lover and Hass


A court in Bulgaria has sentenced the two to life in prison, who despite their efforts have never been located • 6 people, 5 of them Israelis, were killed in an explosion on a tourist bus at the airport

  • The remains of the tourist bus against which an explosive device was placed in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 2012

    Photo: 

    AFP

A Bulgarian court today (Monday) sentenced Australian flower lover and Hassan al-Hajj, a Canadian, who were involved in carrying out a terrorist attack on a tourist bus at the country's airport in Burgas in 2012, in which five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian citizen were killed.

The two were never captured.

In the attack, which took place on July 18, 2012 and was one of the deadliest carried out abroad against Israelis, 35 people were also injured. The terrorist carrying the explosive was also killed in the explosion.

Documentation by security cameras at the airport shows French-Lebanese terrorist Muhammad Hassan al-Husseini walking around the place carrying a briefcase on his back, shortly before placing the explosive device on a bus that was supposed to make its way to a popular tourist site in the area.

Eyewitnesses who were at the scene said that al-Husseini tried to place the luggage in the trunk of the bus, which was full of Israeli tourists.

Investigators were unable to determine whether the bomb had been detonated by al-Husseini himself or by Farah or Hassan, both of Lebanese descent, who had helped a terrorist assemble the bomb.

Investigators did manage to find that the two entered the country from Romania about a month before the attack, and left Bulgaria the evening after the bus explosion.

The trial against them has been conducted without their presence since January 2018. Interpol is trying to locate the terrorists to this day, without success.

Source: israelhayom

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