The driver, who hit the Austrian athletessi sentenced to three years

Baku / 19.09.16 / Turan: Baku serious Rimes Court passed a  sentence in the case of the accused in an accident in the village of athletes in June 2015, when the bus knocked the Austrian team in synchronized swimming. The incident happened in the framework of the first European Games, and victims - Vanessa Shahinovich and Luna  Pajero were seriously injured. Shahinovich became a lifelong disable.

The court sentenced the bus driver Veli Ahmadov to three years in prison. The chief of the State Service of the Ministry of Transport Hussein Salaam was also sentenced to the same term. Camera operator of the  "Safe City", Elchin Hasanov,  who published those videos  on the Internet was sentenced to four years of imprisonment.

Farid Amiraslanov,  consultant of the Department of passenger transport of  Transport Ministry,  was sentenced to three years probation. Thus, the most seriously was punished not a man that  injured the  athletes, but   that man who made the incident public.

The  prosecutor asked the court to sentence  Akhmedov to three years,  Salamov  and Hasanov to seven, and Amiraslanov to five years of  imprisonment. –06В-