Overview
- Prosecutors submitted an indictment to an Istanbul court accusing six suspects in the deaths of a German family during a November hotel stay.
- Five defendants, including pest-control workers and a hotel manager, are charged with deliberate negligent homicide with potential sentences ranging from two years eight months to more than 22 years.
- A separate hotel employee faces related charges carrying a possible sentence of up to 15 years.
- A forensic report found residues of a highly toxic pesticide on towels, masks and other samples from the room, with no indication of food poisoning.
- Authorities sealed the hotel and previously detained up to eleven people, and the case has intensified scrutiny of pesticide handling and hotel oversight in Turkey.