Jacque Felipe Martin

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Jacque Felipe Martin
Born 1987
Died 2012-07-18
Burqas, Turkey
Known for suicide bomber

Jacque Felipe Martin is the name found on identity documents of the individual believed to be bomber when a bus exploded in Burqas, Bulgaria, on July 18, 2012.[1][2]

The American Broadcasting Corporation acquired a copy of the image of a Michigan drivers' liscense, apparently issued to Jacque Felipe Martin.[1] Since the liscense says Martin lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Michigan only issues drivers' liscenses to Michigan residents, the liscense is described as a forgery. The address on the liscense is not a residence, it is a casino. A car rental agent in Turkey declined to rent a car to Martin in the days prior to the explosion -- due to suspicions that his identity documents might have been forgeries.[2]

On July 20, 2012, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's interior minister, reported that the suspect had been captured on CCTV just prior to the bombing, and had been in Bulgaria for more than three days.[2] Al Jazeera reported the closed circuit surviellance "showed an apparently white male with long hair, possibly a wig, dressed in typical holiday gear - shorts, a baseball cap, sneakers - and carrying a backpack and a laptop bag."

The BBC News interviewed the car rental agent, who said the suspect had a shaved head, and spoke with an arabic accent.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Swedish, Bulgarian officials deny Mehdi Ghezali is Burgas suicide bomber". Haaretz. 2012-07-19. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fnews%2Fdiplomacy-defense%2Fswedish-bulgarian-officials-deny-mehdi-ghezali-is-burgas-suicide-bomber-1.452314&date=2012-07-21. "Officials reject earlier reports by Bulgarian media that suspect in attack on Israelis in Bulgaria was carried out by Swedish citizen who was a former Guantanamo detainee." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Police struggle to identify Bulgaria bomber". Al Jazeera. 2012-07-21. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/07/20127215815186999.html. Retrieved 2012-07-21. "After two days of investigations, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's interior minister, was only able to confirm on Friday that the bomber was "not a Bulgarian citizen" and had been in the country "not less than four days". Fingerprints and DNA samples from the suspected bomber's body were being used in the effort to learn his identity, he said." 
  3. "Struggle to identify Bulgaria bus suicide bomber". BBC News. 2012-07-20. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18935976. Retrieved 2012-07-21. "But a witness said on Friday the suspect was a dark-skinned man with short brown hair and an Arabic accent, and appeared to be wearing a wig."