Overview
- Police have detained seven people in the case, including a hotel employee and two extermination workers, according to NTV, while some local media report eight arrests.
- Authorities opened a criminal case for causing death by negligence after three members of a German family died following their hospitalizations.
- Investigators are testing the hypotheses of foodborne poisoning from items eaten at a Beşiktaş café and exposure to substances used during insect extermination on the hotel’s first floor.
- Two additional tourists from the same hotel, an Italian and a Moroccan, were hospitalized on November 15 with suspected food poisoning and are reported to be in stable condition.
- Current guests of Harbour Suites Old City were relocated to other hotels, the café visited by the family was sealed by order of the prosecutor, and the surviving father remains in intensive care.