Bulgaria request the assistance of the lack of investigation in an attack on Israeli tourists

Bulgaria request the assistance of the lack of investigation in an attack on Israeli tourists

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Asked Bulgaria, officially, from Canada, Australia, Lebanon and Israel help them in their investigation about the attack that targeted Israeli tourists, and resulted in six deaths in July last year, officials also announced at the Interior Ministry.

Said Kalin Giorgyev, a senior official in the ministry, on Saturday, the TV Nova "The requests for investigating judicial sent to several countries, including Canada, Australia and Israel," and stressed that "the investigation enters a new phase: collecting direct evidence about the perpetrators of the attack."

The Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov, on Friday, that such a request was also sent to Lebanon, where suspected Bhetwatihma staying with the bomber.

The minister said public television BNP T. "The two family ties indicated that they had held contacts in Canada and Australia with people linked to the military wing of Hezbollah."

Standart newspaper wrote based on sources close to the investigation, said on Saturday that Bulgaria asked especially from Lebanon arrest and interrogation of the suspects who knew their identities.

According to the newspaper asked Bulgaria from Australia to confirm the identity of the suspect resides in Bulgaria under a pseudonym is Brian Jameson believed that he had received a bank transfer of Hezbollah.

And Canada, for its part confirmed the identity of the other suspect used in Bulgaria fake identification papers as "Rico", and lived in Vancouver between the age of eight and twelve.

The attack carried out on 18 July at Bourgas Airport (east) killed six people - five Israelis and tourists Bulgarian bus driver.