Balgarianovinite.com Two Ukrainian citizens have been arrested in connection with the May 8 shooting in downtown Varna, in which a 73-year-old woman was shot in the arm, said Radoslav Lazarov, spokesperson for the Varna District Prosecution Office. The initial charges for attempted murder have been changed to kidnapping and unlawful deprivation of liberty. Lazarov clarified that the evidence gathered in the case reveals a different factual situation.
The two men have been detained for 72 hours. A request for their permanent detention is to be filed with the court. The man who was the victim of their actions has been identified, and numerous interviews have been conducted regarding the case, Lazarov added.
The head of the Varna Police Directorate, Senior Commissioner Tsvetan Pirovski, noted that after the shooting in the city centre, the two armed men fled in a car. Along the way, they discarded the weapon – a 9-millimeter pistol. Later, the two were spotted in the Sunny Beach resort, where they lived. On May 13, they moved to Plovdiv (South Central Bulgaria), changing their lodgings daily, but the police tracked them down and, together with a group of special forces, apprehended them. A passport with different names but the same photo was found on one of them, suggesting they had planned to leave the country, Pirovski added.
The two detainees have already been transported to Varna. Regarding the kidnapped man, Pirovski noted that he is a permanent resident of Bulgaria.
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