Teddy bears airdrop participant: Sweden won't give us away to Belarus
Prosecutor General Office of Sweden started investigation of the illegal border crossing incident, which happened in 2012.
The representative of the Swedish advertising company Studio Total, which organized the teddy bears airdrop over Belarus, has no worries in this regard.
"The Prosecutor General Office of Sweden has already stated that even if
there is a punishment it will be a small fine. We are not afraid that the
Swedish authorities will extradite us to Belarus, we are sure this won't
happen", - one of the teddy bears airdrop participants Tomas
Mazetti has said to BelaPAN.
Euroradio reminds, a
one-motor plane with a Swedish crew of Studio Total employees on board
illegally crossed the air border of Belarus in the morning on July 4. It spent
nearly an hour and a half in the air, and dropped more than 800 teddy bears
with notes in support of democracy in Belarus over Minsk and Ivyanets.
A criminal case has been started in Belarus upon this fact. Alyaksandr
Lukashenka fired Head of the State Frontier Committee Ihar Rachkouski
and Commander of the Air Forces and Air Defence Forces General-Mayor Dzmitry
Pakhmelkin for "poor fulfillment of professional obligations for
granting state security of the Republic of Belarus".
In February 2013, the chief warrant officer of the frontier service who failed
to inform the military forces about the border crossing by the Swedish plane
was sentenced to two years of imprisonment.
Photo - Studio Total
