Trial Biel court acquits those responsible after swimming accident in Biel
Following the fatal swimming accident of a girl in the indoor pool of the Biel Congress Center in 2021, the court acquitted the teacher, the pool attendant and his boss of the charge of intentional homicide on Thursday.
30.10.2025, 14:36
30.10.2025, 14:37
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The eight-year-old girl was on an excursion to the indoor pool with her school class. A teacher, a trainee at the end of teacher training and a mother accompanied the 16 children.
No one in the pool was directly aware of how the girl drowned. A bather suddenly saw the motionless child at the bottom of the deep water area of the pool and rescued her. She later died in hospital.
It was an incredibly tragic accident, said the court president at the opening of the verdict on Thursday. It was the worst thing that could happen to a family - but also the worst thing that could have happened to a lifeguard and his supervisor.
