They detained for 72 hours the drugged driver who, during a race with the police, caused an accident and injured police officers.

This is reported by the District Prosecutor's Office in Burgas.

Yesterday, while passing through the checkpoint, the driver disobeyed police orders to stop and accelerated, affecting a small part of the patrol car.

After a chase, the accused drives his car into the roadblock formed by police cars.

A race in Burgas ended with two injured policemen

"District Prosecutor's Office - Burgas detains S.G. for a period of up to 72 hours. He is accused of threatening on 23.07.2022 in the town of "Poda" in the city of Burgas with the aim of coercing an authority - a police officer from " Border Police", to omit something on duty related to his functions, namely: he did not stop when signaled by the police officer with a stop baton, pointing the car he was driving at the police officer, with a view to avoiding a police check. The serious intentional crime is qualified under Article 269, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

The accused S.G.

was brought to criminal responsibility also for the fact that on the same date, again in the city of Burgas, in the context of the combination with the previous act, while driving a car, violating the traffic rules according to the ZDVP, he committed a traffic accident, hitting a patrol car of the ODMVR- Burgas, who caused moderate bodily injury - a fracture of the left arm of a police officer, and the act was committed after the use of narcotic substances - methamphetamine and amphetamine, established in due course with a technical means, he fled the scene of the accident and drove the motor vehicle without having the necessary legal capacity.

The act is classified under Art. 343, para. 3, second, fourth and fifth preambles, b. "a", para. 1, para. 342, para. 1, para. 23, para. 1 of the Criminal Code in accordance with the ZDvP".

Burgas