The defense teams of some of the defendants is requesting for the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) to revise the indictment for the fire in the Pulse nightclub in Kochani and stop the procedure for some of the defendants who were not in office at the time of the incident.
The defense is referring to the latest decision of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption (PPO OCC), which separated the procedure for the suspected police officers, and filed charges for some of the police officers as co-perpetrators of serious crimes against public security, and for some of them for abuse of official duty and providing false information.
In the document, the defense notes that the defendants for whom it is requesting the indictment to be dropped are not officials, their functions ended 7 months, 2 years and 12 years ago in the institutions, and that they did not have the authority to link them to the fire.
A total of 35 individuals and 3 legal entities are on trial for the tragic fire that claimed 63 lives and left over 220 injured.
