The Federal Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a company owner and a workers supervisor against a sentence of three months in jail and the payment of a blood money equal to 200,000 dirhams to the heirs of a worker who died of electrocution on the job site.

The court affirmed that the defendants' failure to provide the victim with safety means and a malfunction in the connection of the electric wires are a mistake, resulting in the death of the victim.

In detail, the Public Prosecution referred a company owner and an official and supervisor of workers to the court on charges of causing a mistake in the death of a worker as a result of negligence, lack of protection, breach of their profession, and violation of laws, regulations and instructions, where they did not provide the necessary security and safety during work. And improper installation of electrical wires, which resulted in shocking the victim and his death.

Witness statements and the technical report proved that the company did not provide security and safety, there was no guidance plate, and that the electrical connections were not connected properly.

The first instance court sentenced each of them to three months in jail, obliged them to pay a fine of 2,000 dirhams, paid the victim's blood of 200,000 dirhams equally, and obliged them to pay the prescribed judicial fees.

The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict, and the two convicts did not accept this jurisdiction. We appealed against it before the Federal Supreme Court.

The defendants said that the death was caused by the victim's fault, because he tried to operate a fan with his hands wet with water, without wearing gloves, which shocked him and his death.

The Federal Supreme Court rejected this argument, explaining that the collection of an understanding of the reality in the case, an assessment of its evidence and weighting between them, and taking what it deems likely, and extracting the truth therein, and assessing the error due to the responsibility of the perpetrator alone or a participant in the crime of manslaughter, as well as an assessment of the existence of a causal link between Mistake and damage or lack of them are substantive issues decided by the court of first instance without comment, as long as its assessment is palatable based on acceptable evidence, and has its fixed origin in the papers.

She pointed to the availability of all legal elements of the crime of wrongful murder condemned by the defendants, where a maintenance engineer attributed to the Federal Electricity and Water Authority incident to the failure to follow the correct method of connecting the wires of power, and the lack of security and safety tools, according to what he said in the minutes of the Public Prosecution, workers said They were with the victim at the time of the death of the Public Prosecutor, that the first defendant, the owner of the company, and the second defendant, the worker in charge, did not provide security and safety tools (gloves, shoes, helmet and belt), and they received only clothes from the company since they started working in it, which is sure with him Court that the defendants had made a mistake not to follow the correct way to work, and the lack of guiding plates, and the lack of safety and security tools.