The Kahramanmaraş Chief Public Prosecutor's Office appealed to the Gaziantep Regional Court of Appeal for pastry shop owners Sami Kervancıoğlu and Mustafa Pekel and architect Ertan Danacı to be punished for possible intent in the Ezgi Apartment case, in which 35 people died in the 6 February earthquakes.
The appeal said it was foreseeable that interventions in the load-bearing system could weaken the building's safety. It assessed that the defendants continued their actions despite foreseeing the grave outcome. At the verdict hearing, the pastry shop owners had been sentenced to 8 years each for conscious negligence.
