Bulgarian court error delays trial over Israeli bombing
A procedural error has caused the Bulgarian court to delay the start of the trial for the two supects until November; Both suspects are being tried in absentia over their roles in the 2012 bombing that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in Burgas.
The opening was delayed because the Sofia court had failed to inform the victims' families of the start date, prosecutors told AFP.
The proceedings against two alleged suspects in the attack, who are on the run and being tried in absentia, will now start on November 10.
A Franco-Lebanese national, identified as Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, blew up a bus carrying Israeli tourists at the airport of the Black Sea coast resort of Burgas on July 18, 2012.
Five Israelis, their Bulgarian driver and the bomber himself died in the attack, which left 35 other Israelis injured.
Bulgarian authorities identified the attacker's alleged accomplices as two Lebanese men with links to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, named as Australian passport holder Meliad Farah and Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan.
The attack -- which both Israel and Bulgaria blamed on Hezbollah -- was the deadliest attack against Israelis abroad since 2004 and played a role in a subsequent European Union decision to blacklist Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization.
