Fourteen people were arrested, eight of whom were referred to the prosecutor’s office on Friday to be charged in the criminal investigation into the fire at a mountain hotel, which left 78 dead in Turkey, according to the state Anadolu agency.
The fire which broke out on Tuesday night in the Kartalkaya ski resort (center) revealed a chain of negligence and the absence of an alert and security system.
The investigation is focusing on those responsible for the hotel, emergency services and the municipality of Bolu, the capital to which the station depends.
On Friday, the owner of the luxury Grand Kartal establishment and his son-in-law were arrested, according to Anadolu.
They joined in particular the deputy mayor of Bolu, the deputy fire chief, the hotel’s chef, the establishment’s electrician and an architect, Turkish media detail.
-Survivors and experts who arrived at the scene of the tragedy denounced the absence of a working alarm system and smoke detector, sprinklers, secure staircases and means of access for firefighters to an entire facade. of the twelve-story establishment, overlooking the ski slopes.
According to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, 238 guests, mainly families with children, were in the hotel during the disaster, which occurred in the middle of the night and during the winter school holidays.
The fire which broke out on Tuesday night in the Kartalkaya ski resort (center) revealed a…
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