In an interview with NHK, a former representative of a real estate company that created the embankment that was the starting point of the collapse of the debris flow in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, claimed that he was "not responsible" for the criminal charges by the bereaved families of the victims. ..
In the damage caused by a large-scale debris flow in Atami City last July, a large amount of earth and sand rushed to the residential area, killing 27 people including disaster-related deaths, and one is missing.
A 71-year-old man who was the representative of the real estate company that created the embankment that was the starting point of the debris flow collapsed in an interview with NHK on the 11th.
Regarding the fact that the embankment construction work carried a larger amount of earth and sand than planned, and Atami City repeatedly instructed the real estate company to bring in the earth and sand and cancel the construction, the former representative said, "We have not received any reports and documents. I haven't seen it. "
In response to the question of whether he was aware of the danger of collapse, he insisted, "I didn't think that it would collapse, not the amount of sediment that I felt dangerous even when I looked at the photos of the site at that time."
The land, including the embankment, was sold to its current owner in 2011.
The bereaved families of the debris flow victims have filed criminal charges against the former representative and the current owner of the land for alleged murder.
Regarding this, the former representative said, "I am just the owner who got the permission of the embankment, I was not involved in the landfill, and it was another company who did it. I sold it unfinished, but after that the new owner Must be in control. Nothing has happened in the 10 years since the sale and I am not responsible. "