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Greek bus hijackers say sorry
TWO Albanian hijackers who held 23 passengers hostage on a bus in Greece apologised to the Greek people in court today, saying it was a "stupid act", a judicial source said. The two gunmen appeared before an investigative magistrate who ordered they be imprisoned until their trial. "Their actions are condemned not only by society but also by me personally," lawyer Stefanos Lyberopoulos, defending one of the men, said after the hearing. Lyberopoulos said his client, Leonard Murataz, had repeatedly apologised for his actions which were caused by what the gunman said were psychological problems. "He is very sorry for what he has done. I believe that the time he will spend in prison will help him to come around and realise the dimension of the wrongful action he committed," Lyberopoulos said, before police drove the two handcuffed men to Athens' top security Korydallos prison. Murataz's accomplice, Elton Resulaj, who had no legal representation, told the magistrate he apologised to all Greeks and Albanians."He told the magistrate he wanted to apologise to Greeks and the hundreds of thousands of his fellow Albanians living in Greece for what he said was a stupid act," a judicial source told Reuters.
Posted by: God Save The World 2004-12-20 |
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