Istanbul - A Turkish court will this week begin hearing a case involving three German students who died of alcohol poisoning while vacationing in a resort near the coastal city of Antalya. Thirteen people stand accused in the case, among them senior staff members of the hotel and owners of a company that dealt in black market liquors.
Prosecutors have charged them with attempted murder, manslaughter and with violating the laws regulating Turkey's alcohol trade.
The students, from the German city of Lubeck, came to Turkey on a class trip in March last year. Several students fell ill after drinking at their hotel what they believed to be vodka. A 21-year-old student died in Turkey from methanol poisoning, while another two fell into comas and died after being airlifted to Germany.
According to prosecutors, a local company had supplied the hotel where the students were staying with illegally-manufactured spirits.
It is not the first such case in Turkey.
In 2005, 22 people died in Istanbul, from a contaminated version of the Turkish national drink Raki, creating a panic and forcing manufacturers and government authorities to come up with new methods for authenticating bottles of the spirit.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/305607,turkish-trial-in-alcohol-deaths-of-german-students-to-open.html.
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