The trial of 23 defendants, eight of whom are at the moment in custody, has began concerning the mine explosion wherein 43 employees misplaced their lives and 9 had been injured on Oct. 14 final 12 months within the Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises (TTK) mine establishment, positioned within the Amasra district of northern Bartin province.
The defendants, complainants, kin of those that misplaced their lives within the explosion and legal professionals attended the Bartın High Criminal Court listening to.
Law enforcement businesses took intensive safety measures in and across the courthouse. The indictment abstract was learn on the listening to.
Some of those that filed complaints and kin of those that misplaced their lives reacted because the defendants had been introduced into the courtroom.
Within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Amasra Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, 24 suspects, together with TTK Amasra Institution Director Cihat Özdemir, the corporate’s Deputy Director Salih Atmaca, Operations Manager Selçuk Ekmekci, Chief Engineer of Occupational Safety and Training Volkan Soylu, Chief Engineer Mehmet Tural, mining engineers Levent Aydın and Ibrahim Hakan Mengeş, mining engineers accountable for the carts (the quarry consisting of a number of manufacturing items) and police engineer Şahan Kahraman had been arrested for “causing the death and injury of more than one person by conscious negligence”; Judicial management provisions had been utilized to 4 suspects, whereas three of the suspects had been launched by a decide, and 9 of them had been launched after investigations performed by the prosecutor’s workplace.
A call of “non-prosecution” was given for one in all these suspects in the course of the investigation course of. In the indictment, a sentence of 840 years to 1,050 years is being demanded 42 instances for “possible intentional killing” and 5.5 years to 12 years for “possible intentional injury” for the detained defendants Özdemir, Ekmekci, Soylu and Tural.
In the indictment demanding 845 to 1,062 years for 2 crimes, 19 defendants, 4 imprisoned, had been charged with 2.5 years and 22.5 years for “causing the death and injury of more than one person by conscious negligence.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com
