Police Detain Defendant in Deadly Bulgaria Train Blaze Trial

Georgiev was found by the Police at his home in Varna and was detained there before being transfered to a detention facility to await the delayed trial. Photo by BGNES

Members of the Bulgarian Court Police have detained Georgi Georgiev, one of the defendants in the deadly Sofia - Kardam train fire trial.

Georgiev was found by the Police at his home in Varna and was detained there before being transfered to a detention facility to await the delayed trial.

He had submitted a claim with the District Court in Pleven in an attempt to delay his permanent detention.

Georgiev was the the ticket collector of the ill-fated sleeping car in which nine people died while traveling from the capital city of Sofia to the northern town of Kardam. He is charged with recklessness causing the death of two passengers. He failed to show up in court Monday.

Georgiev's absence caused the trial to be postponed and the magistrates ruled he must be arrested and kept permanently behind bars.

In his claim the ticket collector asked the Court to overturn the permanent detention measure and presented medical documentation, dated July 13, certifying he had a suffered a high blood pressure crisis stopping him from appearing before the magistrates.

On Monday, Georgiev failed to answer his cell phone or to send a defense lawyer to the trial, which became the cause for its postponement.

The Prosecutor, Valeri Mirchev, said Monday that Georgiev's absence and the lack of any information regarding his whereabouts had been a mockery of the Court.

 

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