Pinari: Gerdeci was to be guarded by Army

06/02/2012 00:00

The former MEICO director, Ylli Pinari, continued his defense against the Prosecution charges about the Gerdec tragedy.

Referring to dozens of documents and orders that were to be signed by him, in a 260-pages-long material, Pinari accused the Prosecution of having transferred the people whose duty was to guard the Gerdec military base.

According to him, it was a competence of the Army to guard the Gerdec Military Base, because MEICO couldn’t undertake duties of military character, which would have been impossible and illegal at the same time.

Pinari’s defense lawyer added that the Prosecution’s investigations about the causes of the explosion have been unilateral, since they have accepted a priori that the cause was a welding procedure on a wheelbarrow, and the Prosecution did not accept the lawyer’s request for further investigations on this matter.

“Our claims are even more concrete when referred to the US experts’ report, which lists five possible explosion causes, with the wheelbarrow version among them, but also a fire caused by an electro-static discharge”.

“The charges raised against my client are completely unfounded and far from the reality, maximized only with the intention to make the defendant appear guilty for these actions, when Ylli Pinari cannot be responsible for any of them, if we had read the duties and responsibilities on the MEIC contracts.”

Pinari’s lawers asked the court to release their client from all charges.

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