This is the moment a Ukrainian tourist rammed two armed robbers off a motorcycle with his car after they smashed his window and stole £31,000 from him at gunpoint.
The Ukrainian man Dymitro Chaban, was sitting in his car outside a hotel in the Mahmutlar neighbourhood of Alanya, Turkey, when two robbers on an unregistered motorcycle accosted him and tried to rob him.
One man smashed the window with the butt of his weapon and screamed at him, demanding a bag that was later found to have €35,000 in cash inside.
After the men, named locally as Murat Orhan Gündüz and Elnur Behbulda Gündüz, fired a shot into the car, they took the bag and fled on the motorcycle.
Chaban then followed them in his car and collided with the motorcycle about 1,000 feet away.
Emergency teams who arrived at the scene pronounced both men dead. A gun and an empty casing were found at the site by investigators.
Chaban was detained, and the bodies of the two men were taken to the morgue.
At the Alanya 1st High Criminal Court, where the case was heard, he reportedly said of the November 2023 incident: ‘I lost consciousness when I saw the gun when I was robbed. If I had been in my right mind, I would not have hit them.
‘I would not have risked my life; I had no intention of killing. I do not have the ability to kill people; it was all beyond my control.’
Judges initially issued a life sentence for ‘deliberate killing’ during a sentencing hearing in November 2025.
The court then applied an ‘extreme provocation’ reduction and converted it into a total of 25 years: two sentences of 12 years and six months, one for each victim.
Chaban did not attend the sentencing, but his lawyers and his spouse were present.
A man identified as Yunus Emre C., accused of acting as a lookout during the robbery, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in the robbery.
