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Algerian Appeals Court Finds Hotel Company Liable in 2021 Pool Electrocution of Italian Worker

The decision follows the Supreme Court's annulment of an earlier acquittal.

Overview

  • The court recognized the company managing the Hotel Amsterdam in Rouïba as civilly liable for Alex Bonucchi’s death as a legal entity.
  • It ordered 8 million Algerian dinars in compensation to his parents—4 million each—along with a 200,000-dinar fine for the company (about €53,000 and €1,300, respectively).
  • The reopened appellate proceeding took place in recent days in Algiers with Bonucchi’s parents present.
  • Bonucchi’s mother welcomed the ruling as a partial step and said the family will seek criminal convictions of the hotel’s owners.
  • The family also demands the return of organs retained in Algeria—heart and right lung—which Repubblica reports were later buried in Rouïba after about 15 months.