Poland on Friday billed 3 Belarusian authorities about the 2021 compelled touchdown of a Ryanair airplane in Minsk with a resistance Belarusian blog owner aboard.
Detectives charged the triad of taking control of an airplane, compelled touchdown and deprival of freedom, the district attorney’s workplace in Warsaw stated in a declaration.
Following, the authorities intend to ask for worldwide apprehension warrants for the 3 Belarusians, that are not in Poland.
Protasevich co-founded the regime-critical Telegram network Nexta, which sustains the resistance versus veteran Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
In Might 2021, the Belarusian authorities, assisted by a competitor jet, compelled a Ryanair traveler airplane flying from Athens to Vilnius to make an unscheduled touchdown in Minsk, asserting there was a bomb danger.
Roman Protasevich and his partner Sofia Sapega got on board and both were apprehended after the touchdown prior to being punished to jail.
Protasevich was after that suddenly launched in 2023, while Sapega was absolved.
The Polish district attorney’s workplace occupied examinations as the airplane was signed up in Poland.
” Throughout the examination, recordings of discussions from the cabin of the airplane consisting of the discussion recording gadget and technological trip information from the supposed ‘Black Box’ were safeguarded,” the authority mentioned.
Moreover, records from team participants concerning the training course of the trip were gotten.
According to the district attorney’s workplace, the suspects are the previous supervisor of the Belarusian air traffic control service authority, the head of the trip control centre in Minsk and the head of the Belarusian knowledge solution (KGB).
The examinations exposed that the suspects offered incorrect info concerning a supposed eruptive gadget aboard when taking control of the airplane and requiring the pilots to make an emergency situation touchdown, robbing 132 guests of their liberty, while the major purpose was to detain Protasevich.