Remington agreed to pay $ 73 million to the families of sculpture victims in Connecticut 2012

The American bankrupt weapon production company Remington, which released a rifle used during a massacre in the elementary school of Sandy-Hook (Connecticut, USA), will pay $ 73 million to the families of the dead. It is reported by CNN.

Remington, four of her insurers and families of the dead came to a world agreement seven years after filing a lawsuit. The plaintiffs claimed that the company should be responsible for such tragedies due to a marketing strategy calling for violence. This is the first similar decision since 2005 - then a federal law was adopted that protects weapons manufacturers from liability for its illegal use.

Families will also gain access to all internal materials of the company and the possibility of their distribution, representatives of families in a press release said . These documents prove the unlawful actions of the company and can help avoid the same tragedies in the future.

“This significant, historical victory sends a powerful and convincing signal to the manufacturers, as well as the insurance and banking industries that support them: this is a high level of risk, it is disadvantageous, and you will be held accountable,” said Nicole Hokley, who lost his son Dylan in mass execution.

In turn, the parents of another deceased, six -year -old boy Noah, said that their loss was “irreversible, and in this sense the result is not atoning and not restorative”

The tragedy in Sandy-Hook occurred on December 14, 2012. Twenty -year -old Adam Lanza, armed with a semi -automatic rifle and two pistols, shot six adults and 20 children in elementary school. On the same day, he killed his mother in their house. The criminal committed suicide.