burgas · BG
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On 25 August 2022 two serving Bulgarian police officers were killed at the "Trapezitsa" roundabout in Burgas when the bus they were attempting to stop struck their patrol car. The vehicle, carrying migrants, had been pursued by border police from a checkpoint on the Malko Tarnovo–Burgas road after twice failing to stop; at an earlier checkpoint an officer had to jump onto the crash barrier to avoid being run down. The officers blocked the road with their patrol car at the roundabout, but the bus neither braked nor slowed, dragging the car through metal barriers and several kiosks before coming to rest on grass. The court heard that the injuries were incompatible with survival. The driver, a Syrian national accused of smuggling migrants, was convicted of the killings. A district court sentenced him to 20 years in February 2025; following an appeal by the prosecution, which regarded that sentence as disproportionate to the gravity of the offence, the appellate court replaced it with life imprisonment. His defence maintains the deaths were caused by negligence rather than intent and has said it will appeal to the Supreme Court of Cassation.
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