“Four days have passed since the tragedy and until now no public figure, no official has been punished and you tell us to wait for the investigation. I don’t remember when and what you investigated,” National Movement MP Levan Khabeishvili said at the plenary session of the Parliament.
The opposition politician recalled the collapse of the ceiling in the Varketili subway a few years ago and asked which high-ranking official was punished for the incident.
The member of the National Movement noted that four days after the tragedy in Vake Park, the ruling party wants some worker to be the culprit, not an official.
Khabeishvili added that he has made numerous statements on corruption issues regarding Green Service and filed a lawsuit with the Prosecutor’s Office. If these cases had been investigated and these people had been actually punished, this company would not have been able to make the Vake Park fountain, he claimed.
“When you let the company, which did the examination of the ceiling in the Varketili metro, be in charge of the Vake Park fountain, what should we talk about after all this?! No one is saying that anyone is happy about the death of the angel child. I understand that it is difficult, but where is the responsibility? Who is responsible for anything in this city? And you want us to keep quiet about it?” added Khabeishvili.
Three children were electrocuted when they were trying to retrieve the ball that fell in the fountain in Vake Park. The children were taken to the clinic by an ambulance. The condition of one of the children, a 13-year-old girl, was serious from the beginning and she died in the Khechinashvili clinic. The condition of other two teenagers ia stable and satisfactory. They’ve been discharged from the clinic.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs launched an investigation under Article 240 prima of the Criminal Code, which refers to the violation of safety rules, which resulted in less serious or serious injury to health. According to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, in the course of ongoing investigative proceedings, the case was re-qualified under Article 240 (1) I and II parts of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which implies the breach of safety regulations at electric facilities that resulted in death. The committed crime envisions from 4 to 7 years of imprisonment.
