It has taken families of the two young people killed as a result of a cliff collapse on a Peniche beach 17 years ago all this time to see a court concede that yes, the State was considerably more to blame for the deaths than the tourists themselves. The Central Administrative Court of the South has condemned the State to pay €400,000 to the victims’ families (each receiving €200,000) after ruling that there was a lack of warning signs; a lack of checks (of the cliffs) and a lack of preventative intervention. As reports today explain, along the years, there have been repeated attempts to archive the case, resuscitated by appeals lodged by the families. They have finally been vindicated.
