The court sentenced the man to one year in prison on probation. In the case of the collapse to the South of the city centre of Cologne, two young men died.
In a criminal process the collapse of the Cologne city archive, the regional court has sentenced a defendant for negligent homicide to imprisonment for a period of one year on probation. It is the claim of the Prosecutor’s office.
The former General superintendent shall have violated in the construction of a metro stop in front of the archive building of its monitoring duties. The process was under time pressure, because at the beginning of March, the accusation would be time-barred. In a previous trial, the district court had operated last October, three of the defendants – employees of construction companies and the Cologne transport (KVB) – acquitted. A construction supervisor, the KVB was sentenced to a suspended sentence of eight months for causing death by negligence.
In the accident almost ten years ago, two young men were killed, it is a billion damage. The court is Convinced that the collapse of the archive and two neighbouring residential buildings was caused by error during the subway construction.
