The Turkish Prosecutor's Office requests the prosecution of 17 of the 49 detainees for the terrorist attack in Istanbul

MADRID, 18 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Istanbul Prosecutor General's Office has asked the Turkish Justice this Thursday to prosecute 17 of the 49 suspects arrested in connection with the bomb attack that occurred in the capital of the country on Sunday in which six people died and 81 were injured.

After the suspects have been interrogated by 29 prosecutors at the Istanbul General Prosecutor's Office, the Public Ministry has requested the official arrest of 17 of them, as reported by the TRT Haber chain.

Among the grounds for prosecution, the Prosecutor's Office has listed crimes such as destruction of the unity and integrity of the State, deliberate murder, deliberate attempt to kill, or complicity in a deliberate crime of murder.

Likewise, the judicial body has referred three suspects to the judge in charge of the case for judicial control, also making the decision to deport the other 29 suspects.

So far, police officers have arrested 49 suspects, of whom 37 are foreign citizens, mostly Syrians, the aforementioned television channel reported.

The authorities have also seized about 4,000 dollars, 5,000 euros and 10,000 liras, as well as jewelry in the house where the main suspect in the bomb attack was staying, who was arrested on Sunday night.

The teams of the Istanbul Police Department, in the early hours of Monday, arrested the woman suspected of having carried out the terrorist attack, as well as 21 other people.

Istanbul has been hit by several explosions in the past, including a suicide bombing in Istiklal in 2016 by a suspected member of the Islamic State jihadist group that killed five people.

In the same year, the PKK, considered by Turkey to be a terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed 38 people outside a soccer stadium in the Besiktas area of ​​central Istanbul.