Formal charges were filed Monday before Larnaka District Court against eight people, including two former Ministers, in connection with last July’s deadly explosion, at a naval base in Cyprus, which killed 13 persons.
Two former Ministers, three top army officers and three senior firemen are facing charges including manslaughter, causing death through negligence, neglect of duty and acting in a way that caused bodily harm.
The defendants are: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Markos Kyprianou, former Defence Minister Costas Papacostas, former National Guard commander Petros Tsalikidis, former NG deputy chief Savvas Argyrou, Colonel Georgios Georgiades – deputy commander of the third support brigade and former commander of the ordnance corps, fire service chief Andreas Nicolaou, deputy chief Charalambos Charalambous, and Andreas Loizides, the commander of the disaster response squad EMAK.