2012 bombing in Bulgaria: life imprisonment for two Lebanese suspected of being linked to Hezbollah
The Sofia Special Court in Bulgaria, September 21, 2020. REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov
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Two Lebanese were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Bulgarian courts.
They are accused of being involved in the 2012 attack which targeted an Israeli tourist bus.
Five of them were dead, as well as the bus driver and the alleged perpetrator of the bomb attack, another Lebanese.
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On July 18, 2012
, a man carrying a backpack approaches a bus parked at the airport in Burgas, a seaside town in Bulgaria.
A few moments later, it is the explosion.
A bomb has just killed 5 Israeli tourists, young people in their twenties and a pregnant woman.
The bus driver, a Bulgarian, was also killed and around 30 people injured.
The alleged perpetrator of the attack, who also died instantly, is a Franco-Lebanese, Mohammed Hassan El Husseini, identified through his DNA.
This September 21, 2020, the Bulgarian justice condemned two men, recognized as being his accomplices: Meliad Ferah who would have participated in the manufacture of the bomb and Hassan el Hajj Hassan, in the logistics to prepare the attack.
Both receive life imprisonment, a sentence they will not serve immediately because they cannot be found.
The perpetrators of the attack are also suspected of being linked to
Hezbollah
, the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement.
This affair had prompted the European Union to place the armed wing of Hezbollah on its blacklist of terrorist organizations.
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