Colau charges against the financial entities that maintain empty premises and “ignore” themselves. The Interior Minister assures that hours before the tragic event a fight has been registered outside the premises
Poverty and precariousness once again claim the lives of four people in a busy place. Barcelona’s Plaza de Tetuán, very close to the city center, was woken up this Tuesday by the tragedy suffered by a family of four, two adults and two young children, who have lost their lives as a result of the fire in the premises. busy where they lived. The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, has not wanted to speculate on the causes and has said that all the hypotheses are open a few hours after the dramatic event. The cold was intense last night in Barcelona. Of course, the place, which was an old empty bank, was part of the black list of spaces at risk of precariousness that the Generalitat made after the fire in a warehouse in Badalona (Barcelona) in which three people died a year ago . The fire started at six in the morning. In addition to the family of four that has lost their lives – with a baby and a three-year-old child – there was another family of four. All of them have been injured. When the emergency services arrived on the premises, they were in the yard asking for help. All of them have been transferred to the hospital.
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has charged against the banking entities, because in her opinion they have empty premises and they “ignore”. Colau has also pointed out that the council’s social services had already offered help to the family, but as he has pointed out, it is not the type of family that usually asks the administration for help. “It was a precarious home,” he said. “It’s terrible,” he added. “It was not a house, it was a bank. It cannot be that there are indefinitely empty premises and the property is neglected, ”he denounced, unloading the responsibilities on the financial entities.
Counselor Elena, has indicated that it was a family like many others that “live in situations that are not acceptable.” The Mossos and the Firefighters are investigating the causes. But it has confirmed that hours before the tragic event, around 2 or 3 in the morning, at the doors of the damaged premises a fight has been registered. The deceased couple has faced some people. Neighbors in the area have called the police, who have come to the scene. Elena has asked that a cause-and-effect relationship between the fight and the tragic fire not be established for the time being.
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