Fassouh Building Owner Sentenced to Jail, Ordered to Pay Compensation to Collapse Victims
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The owner of a building that collapsed in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh neighborhood three years ago was sentenced to two years in jail, media reports said on Thursday.
They said that he was also ordered to pay compensation of L.L. 1.945 billion to the victims affected by the Fassouh building collapse.
Twenty-seven people were killed and 12 wounded in the building collapse.
The seven-storey building collapsed in less than a minute, preventing the residents from escaping.
Then Interior Minister Marwan Charbel had said that the building’s old age was among the factors that contributed to its collapse.
The incident had raised fears of the occurrence of similar ones given the abundance of old buildings in the country and people’s ignorance of proper construction safety rules.
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29 October 2015, 19:30
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What a tragedy, may they rest in peace. I doubt the owner wanted the building to collapse, there should be municipality civil engineers keeping an eye on these things. I doubt the owner was a civil engineer to know how dangerous the situation was. They cant put all the blame on the owner. They should blame the municipality chief as well.
29 October 2015, 20:38
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peacelover the owner had added 2 floors illegally, the structure was initially designed for 3 floors and it ended up collapsing under the weight of 5. the problem was not from the law, the law was clear and he broke it. (plus i know that at least certain tenants were paying upward of 500$/month)
