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Prosecutor demands life imprisonment for three criminal group members accused of attempting to commit terrorists attacks in Azerbaijan on eve of Eurovision-2012 song contest

05 November 2013 09:54 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Shahriyar Alizadeh – APA. Baku Court of Grave Crimes continued the hearing on the criminal case of Samir Saniyev and nine other persons accused of attempting to commit terrorist acts in Azerbaijan on the eve of the Eurovision-2012 song contest.

Lawyer Nemat Karimli told APA that addressing the closed hearing chaired by judge Afgan Hajiyev, the public prosecutor demanded to sentence Samir Saniyev to life imprisonment, 13 people to 15-year imprisonment and other persons to 9-10-year imprisonment.

The hearing will be continued on November 12.

The Ministry of National Security conducted anti-terror operations on the eve of the song contest last year. As a result of the operations, an organized criminal group, who was going to commit terrorist acts and make armed attacks in Baku on the eve of the contest, was rendered harmless.

The investigations found out that gang members planned to commit terrorist attack against the Azerbaijani President during his visit to the north-west region of the country in April last year, as well as to attack the law-enforcement bodies, kill the employees of these structures and seize the ammunitions in the administrative buildings, explode several sanctuaries, mosques and the shrines belonging to the other religious confessions and commit explosions in the places populated most of all by the foreigners, including Hilton Baku and JW Marriot Hotel Absheron and other hotels, as well as in Baku Crystal Hall and State Flag Square.