Medhjelpere til Burgos-bomberen

Et bul­garsk nett­sted opp­gir nav­net på en ame­ri­ka­ner, David Jep­son, som hjalp man­nen som sprengte en isra­elsk turist­buss i lufta i Bur­gos, Bulgaria.

Det frem­går nå at selv­mords­ter­ro­ris­ten hadde med­hjel­pere, en eller to. Det er uklart. Det også uklart hvem so

Jep­son was based in the Bul­ga­rian coas­tal city of Varna, north of Bur­gas, and gave “guidance” to the bom­ber, accor­ding to the report on the site novonite.com. The site stressed this infor­ma­tion was unconfirmed.

It said Jep­son was cap­tu­red on CCTV foo­tage at Varna air­port at the end of June, had spent a few nights stay­ing at a hotel near the Fes­ti­val Con­gress Cen­ter in down­town Varna, and had dis­appea­red since the bom­bing. Police sus­pect he is still in Bul­ga­ria, the report claimed.

The name “David Jep­son” first sur­faced on Fri­day, in a report in the Heb­rew daily Maariv. It clai­med that Jep­son is the man in the artist’s sketch being dis­tri­buted by Bul­ga­rian police. There have been con­flic­ting reports as to whether the man in the sketch is belie­ved by the Bul­ga­ri­ans to have been an accom­plice to the bom­bing, or the bom­ber himself.

Maariv’s report on Fri­day clai­med the Bul­ga­rian aut­hori­ties were sear­ching fran­ti­cally for Jep­son because they belie­ved he had a second bomb in his possession.

Artist’s sketch of a man belie­ved by Bul­ga­rian aut­hori­ties to have assis­ted the Bur­gas bom­ber. (photo cre­dit: screen capture)

Bulgaria’s Interior Minis­ter Tsve­tan Tsve­tanov said on Satur­day that “there may have been a second man” directly involved in the bom­bing. “We have not ruled that out.”

The Bul­ga­rian Daily Stan­dard clai­med Sun­day that a second accom­plice to the bom­ber might also still be at large. Both of the accom­plices were at Burgas’s Sarafovo Air­port at the time of the bom­bing, it said.

One of them was a back-up bom­ber ready to replace the bom­ber if things went wrong. The second one had orders to shoot one or both of the others in the event that they were caught by security offi­ci­als, the report claimed.

Bulga­rian web­site names ‘US citizen David Jep­son’ as sus­pec­ted accom­plice in Bur­gas attack
Uncon­fir­med report adds to con­fu­sion over bom­bing; other report says two accom­plices still at large