The penalty given to the contractor of Yagcioglu Apartment, in which 11 people lost their lives in the Izmir earthquake, has been determined. The contractor and the technically responsible person were sentenced to a total of 25 years.
On October 30, 2020, at 14:51, Turkey painfully remembered the earthquake disaster again, this time at a different point, in Izmir. As a result of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that occurred, 117 citizen lives while losing 1,034 people were injured. One of the most discussed destructions in the earthquake that damaged many houses was 11 people died and 7 people were injured. Yagcioglu Apartment was.
The lawsuit initiated against the contractors of Yagcioglu Apartment, which collapsed during the Izmir earthquake, was concluded today. court, contractor Serafettin Agar (71) and technical liability Orhan Ayber (80) for the crime of “causing the death and injury of more than one person by conscious negligence” Sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in prison he was struck.
They had previously made a confession-like statement:
Şerafettin Ağar and Orhan Ayber, in the statement they made after the earthquake, they noticed water accumulation on the ground during and after the construction construction process, nevertheless continue and complete construction they had said. According to the findings of the prosecutor’s office, the cold storage in the basement of Yağcıoğlu Apartments was later partitioned and turned into a coal mine.
Source :
https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/izmir-depremi-yagcioglu-apartmani-davasinda-muteahhide12-yil-6-ay-hapis-cezasi,w6-WYgdQWUCMYn4cy4Kb9A