22 ships were burned to the ground.
After a three-month investigation, the Istrian police brought charges against three Ukrainian citizens who deliberately caused a fire in the harbor of the resort town of Medulin on the Istrian peninsula in May, in which 22 ships were destroyed and the damage was more than two million euros, the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List wrote. daily newspaper on Saturday.
By reconstructing the events before the fire, the crime experts determined that the three Ukrainian citizens - two 25-year-old men and one 28-year-old man - arrived in Croatia from Poland on May 14. They parked their car somewhere in the Medulin area and then walked to the marina.
The surveillance cameras clearly show that one of them is hiding under the fence, while the other two are standing guard in front of him. At four o'clock in the morning, the young man threw a bottle full of flammable material at one of the yachts, and the fire that started there spread to the other boats, 34 in total, 22 of which were completely destroyed. According to the authorities, the damage caused to the owners exceeded two million euros.
The police issued a warrant against the three Ukrainian citizens, who are believed to have left the country immediately after the incident, so they are currently unavailable to the Croatian authorities.
Croatia is one of the most popular European tourist destinations and a popular sailing destination. There were also foreigners among the owners of the burnt ships. The police only said that the boat on which the Molotov cocktail was thrown was marked in Pula and owned by a 65-year-old man.
MTI
