The Luxembourg City Court continued hearing defence pleas on Tuesday in the trial related to the 2019 Christmas market ice sculpture accident.
The lawyer representing the Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO) requested an acquittal for the non-profit association that operates the municipality’s tourism office. She argued that no fault could be attributed to the LCTO’s employees, and therefore neither could any liability be assigned to the LCTO as a legal entity.
Separately, the lawyer for the former LCTO director and a staff member who welcomed the sculptor on 24 November 2019 on Place Guillaume II also sought acquittals for his clients. He placed blame for the accident on the sculptor himself. His clients could not be accused of a lack of foresight, he argued, because prior to the 2019 incident there had never been a fatal accident involving an ice sculpture in Luxembourg or the surrounding areas. Without prior experience or knowledge of such accidents, the incident was difficult to predict, according to the lawyer.
