Criminal Court judge Cypriot officials on arms shipment

Criminal court in Larnaca Tuesday judgments against six senior Greek officials in the case of the explosion of the arms shipment in July 2011, which left 13 people dead and caused a political and economic crisis on the island.

To the right of the defendants, including two former ministers on charges of murder manslaughter and unintentionally has been issued against them sentenced to life imprisonment, but they paid all acquitted.

On 11 July 2011, causing a fire in some bushes in the explosion of hundreds of containers loaded with Iranian weapons to Syria and custom seized in 2009 and stored without reserves at a naval base.

The blast killed 13 people and destroyed the largest power station in the island was far from that location at 150 meters, which led to a severe crisis in the electricity and disconnection per day during the summer.

The investigation proved the responsibility of former President Demetris Christofias, who insisted on the survival of the shipment in Cyprus in order to preserve its relations with Syria, but his presidential حمته immunity from prosecution.

In the end, to the right of the six accused in Cyprus Markos Kyprianou are former foreign minister and Costas باباكوستاس and the former defense minister and Savas Argyro assistant commander of the army chief Andreas Nicolaou a fire and his assistant Bambus Jaralambos and Andreas Oizidas the unit commander to respond to disasters.

During the trial, prosecution long counted a long series of incompetence and negligence that led to the disaster and then every political official attempts to lay the charges on others while accused the leaders of a fire that they have not attained their men on the ground to the content of the shipment.

After the explosion caused this chain of negligence in an unprecedented protest movement in Cyprus was in demonstrations in front of the presidential palace every evening, as synchronization of the charge of destruction of the electrical station with the beginning of the cycle of economic difficulties on the island led to a serious financial crisis.

Cyprus, which forced almost bankrupt, last March to accept an international bailout ten billion euros accompanied by strict conditions may keep the island in recession for several years.