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The three suspects are a former director of the Belarusian Air Navigation Agency; the top of the air visitors management shift on the time; and the top of Lukashenko’s secret service.
Once European-wide warrants are issued, Polish prosecutors will even ask Interpol to place out a so-called purple discover.
By inventing a non-existent bomb risk because the aircraft crossed by Belarusian air area, the suspects conspired to power the pilots to land at a Minsk airport. the prosecutors mentioned. “Witnesses testified that air visitors controllers have been knowledgeable of the false bomb risk by their superiors,” the prosecutors revealed.
Lithuania referred to as the incident an act of state terrorism and the democratic Belarusian opposition, largely concentrated in Vilnius, in contrast Lukashenko and his regime to “Somali pirates.”
Poland took up the case as a result of Ryanair’s aircraft is registered there — by its Buzz subsidiary — and since a number of Polish residents have been on the flight.
Pratasevich was sentenced to eight years in jail final yr, however he was pardoned quickly after. But he’s not allowed to depart Belarus.
