Two police officers, a man and a woman, witnessed the accident on the ring road in which a French citizen died. However, they did not react in accordance with their official duties. After an inspection, the “Internal Security” asked for their arrest, but the prosecutor did not allow it. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev explained this in a briefing. The two police officers were suspended.
“A check was carried out. There is evidence that the police car traveled along the path of Lyubenov’s Porsche. This police car and the two police officers witnessed the accident itself. Instead of fulfilling their official duties, they did something else, “Demerdzhiev said, but did not specify what exactly.
“Internal security” did the check. The prosecutor was aware of the actions of the police officers. Internal security proposed that the two policemen be detained immediately for 24 hours, their phones and data taken, and immediate action taken. However, the supervising prosecutor did not allow this and took over the investigation, it became clear from the words of Demerdzhiev.
They’re checking police inertia before the incident with a victim on the Ring Road
“These actions consequently were presented as an attempt to see the police cover up the officers involved in these actions. Nothing of the sort. The” Homeland Security “Directorate established these facts and circumstances and a second preliminary proceeding was initiated for their actions and inactions, “Demerdzhiev said.
Employees were removed from their positions even then, their identity cards, badges and service weapons confiscated.
“There is data that they were driving along the path of the” Porsche “, seeing the accident, they did not fulfill their official duties,” Demerdzhiev said again.
“I don’t use the word escort because we have no conclusive evidence that it is an escort in the sense that it has that word.” But we have enough data to believe that by moving along this road they violated their official duties, “Demerdzhiev said.” They witnessed the crash. Instead of reacting as they should, they did something completely different, “the interior minister said. And he stressed that he cannot advertise things from the materials of the preliminary proceedings. The prosecutor’s office should have disclosed them.
According to the internal security officials working on the case, one of the two employees “behaved brazenly”. “We are talking about these people,” Demerdzhiev commented.
About the Shumen accident
“Shumen’s case is much more complicated, but much of the information about it is confidential. If the chief prosecutor does not show courage and does not reveal the details of the case, I will do my best to inform you without breaking the law,” he said. Demerdzhiev.
On the case of Plovdiv, in which a police officer received a bribe, Demerdzhiev said an investigation is underway. The MIA employee was detained for 72 hours by decree of the public prosecutor. An investigation is ongoing.
Demerdzhiev also announced that three police officers were also found, who on 19 August lost a person who had signs of drug use. The driver in question only received one ticket. In return, the policemen received a benefit for the property, Demerdzhiev explained. The three employees were suspended.
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