04.11.2026 19:22
Two students who set fire to a tree in the garden of a high school in the Konak district of İzmir and filmed a video were released under a judicial control measure requiring each of them to plant 50 saplings.
Two students who set fire to a palm tree in a schoolyard in Konak, İzmir, and filmed it were ordered by the court to plant 50 saplings each as a judicial control measure.
THEY BURNED THE TREES IN THE SCHOOLYARD
The incident occurred yesterday at Nevvar Salih İşgören Education Campus Multi-Program Anatolian High School in Konak district. The students set fire to a palm tree in the schoolyard, then stood in front of the flames, posed laughing, and recorded those moments with their cell phones. Some students, paying no heed to the flames quickly engulfing the tree, turned the dangerous situation into entertainment. In the footage, young people were seen clapping and saying, "They burned a palm tree," while another was seen laughing and filming a video with the words, "He burned it professionally."
2 PEOPLE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
The moments when the students took souvenir photos in front of the tree they had burned drew a great reaction. After the footage spread on social media, in an investigation initiated ex officio by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, teams from the İzmir Provincial Police Department's Juvenile Branch Directorate identified and detained 2 children. After their judicial procedures at the police station, the judicial status of the 2 people referred to the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's Juvenile Crimes Investigation Bureau became clear.
THEY WILL PLANT 50 TREES
A judicial control decision was issued for the 2 children brought before the judge. A deterrent sanction was imposed on the suspects, who became the focus of reactions due to their behavior. The 2 children were released under the judicial control measure of planting 50 saplings each and handed over to their families.