Rhodes: The “mammoth” lawsuit of the French for the drowning of their two children in a hotel pool is partially accepted

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According to the decision, the action was dismissed as to the board members and partially accepted as to the anonymous hotel company and two other nationals

A mammoth compensation amounting to 726,640 euros was awarded by decision of the Multi-member Court of First Instance of Rhodes to 8 French people for the drowning of their two children in a hotel swimming pool.

Specifically, the court awarded compensation of 200,000 euros to the father, 206,640 euros to the mother, 120,000 euros to the two siblings and 20,000 euros to the grandparents. The decision was declared provisionally enforceable for the amount of 60,000 euros for each of the parents, for the amount of 40,000 euros for each of the siblings and for the amount of 6,000 euros for each of the grandparents.

According to the decision, the action was dismissed as to the board members and partially accepted as to the anonymous hotel company and two other nationals.

As the “democratiki” wrote, 8 French people, relatives of brothers who died by drowning in a swimming pool, filed a tort lawsuit against an anonymous hotel company, three members of its board of directors and two other citizens.

With their lawsuit, they claim 320,000 euros each and a total of 2,560,000 euros for the satisfaction of mental anguish with default interest from July 31, 2019, in other words with the interest for litigation added in accordance with the relevant distinctions of the Civil Code and to be ordered/proclaimed against each , of the second, third, fourth, members of the board of directors of the first defendant and of the fifth and sixth defendants, personal detention of twelve months.

We remind you that at 6:25 p.m. on July 31, 2019, the Ialyssos Police Department was informed by telephone from the EKAV center that a young foreigner was pulled unconscious from the swimming pool of the aforementioned hotel.

He was specifically on his back in the middle of the pool, the depth of which is determined to be 1.20 meters. EKAV had picked up the 17-year-old French citizen Anais Traore from Amadou from the scene and transported her to the General Hospital of Rhodes, where she was pronounced dead.

In another part of the pool, Amadou’s 19-year-old sister Carla Traore was at the bottom and was pulled out.

As the French state in their lawsuit on 31.7.2019, at the hotel after lunch which took place at 2:00 p.m. and a rest of about an hour, they went as a family to the area of ​​the second swimming pool and lay down on the sunbeds that surround it.

At a point in time between 17.15 and 18.00 their two daughters, Anais and Karla, having entered the water tank in the adult section, died due to suffocation due to water absorption, at an unspecified depth point.

The drowning of their daughter, Anais, was discovered between 18.00 and 18.20 by bathers present. After being pulled out by the bathers present, she was again given first aid by the bathers themselves without success, then the EMS was notified at 18.21, which arrived between 18.35 and 18.38.

After the EKAB ambulance arrived and took their daughter, together with her mother and a man of unknown identity, a third attendee, who performed a resuscitation procedure on their first daughter, started for the General Hospital of Rhodes, where he arrived at 18.50, where after shortly after unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, she was pronounced dead.

At 18.40 again by bathers present and also by their son, Alan, their second daughter Carla was found, lying at the bottom of the same water tank at the point with the greatest depth, 2.90 m. She was retrieved by the lifeguard, sixth of the defendants, who had in the meantime arrived and as they claim was absent during the entire time of the retrieval and resuscitation of their first daughter, while providing first aid only to the second.

The hotel company points out that the hotel had all the required permits, the markings on the swimming pool for the hours of operation as well as the indication of the depths of the swimming pool.

He claims that the plaintiffs in their lawsuit are trying to move the time of the accident to before 18.00, but this is contradicted by all the findings of the police. This effort essentially confirms the existence of a lifeguard, as well as the fact that the lawsuit is directed against him.

He also emphasizes that the young girls did not know how to swim while they claim that the parents left their two minor daughters unattended to enter the swimming pool although they had never visited it until then, according to their statements after using swimming pool No. 1. which had a uniform depth of 1.20 m.

Also, as he emphasizes, they knew that their two daughters had taken with them plates of food which they ate, without informing them that swimming after eating is not allowed.

The hotel company also submitted an objection of sole fault of the deceased.

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