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The families of the 15 Bulgarians, who drowned in the Macedonian Lake Ohrid back in 2009, seek BGN 10.5 M in compensation, it was revealed on Sunday.
The families' civil claim is against two insurance companies, Allianz Versicherung and Germanischer Lloyd, their lawyers have told the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.
The relatives are also seeking BGN 70 000 for material damages.
In August 2012, the Appellate Court in Bitola, Macedonia, upheld the verdicts of ship captain Sotir Filevski and Lloyd representative Branco Baic in the case of the sunken tout boat Ilinden, which killed 15 the Bulgarians in September 2009.
On July 5, 2011, exactly 22 months after the Ohrid Lake tragedy, the court in Ohrid sentenced Macedonian Sotir Filevski, captain of the Ilinden ship, and Croatian Branko Baic, representative of the German company Lloyd, which issued the necessary certificate ensuring Ilinden can be used to transport tourists, to one year behind bars.
According to a bilateral agreement signed in 2002, Bulgaria recognizes the Macedonian courts' civil law verdicts.
The accident with the Ilinden boat was caused by a torn steel rope, according to the conclusions of engineering experts.The steel rope in the left side of the outdated ship Ilinden ripped shortly after the more than 50 Bulgarian tourists boarded it, which led the vessel to overturn.
The ensuing panic led 12 tourists to go to the right part of the overcrowded ship, which accelerated its sinking, the engineering experts say. The ship was allowed to take up to 43 passengers on board.
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