Olga Lucrecia Nieto, one of the 13 people who died in the fire that destroyed two nightclubs in Murcia on October 1, 2023, was working as a waitress on the night of the incident, but was not registered with Social Security, according to what she said. this Friday the lawyer who represents his family, Rosa Egea. The lawyer has been trying for months to prove that Nieto had accumulated seniority as an employee at Fonda Milagros (the room where the 13 deaths occurred) despite not being hired, and finally the labor inspection has agreed with her, as she told the doors of the Murcia courts, where several hearings have been held within the framework of the investigation phase of the case.
Nieto, born in Ecuador, was 56 years old when she died, and her name was one of those that resonated the most in the days after the fire. She was well known among the Hispanic-American community of Murcia, where she also worked in another entertainment establishment, and she was also the partner of a popular host of the Supermix FM Murcia radio station, Ferney Lozano. He was also at Fonda Milagros the night of the fire, although he was able to escape alive. He also worked without being registered as a room entertainer, according to the lawyer, who assures that the labor inspection has already filed a “surcharge on benefits” for the owners of Fonda Milagros, that is, an increase in the financial benefits that the waitress’s family will be entitled to receive if her death is considered a work accident.
Until now, the thesis maintained by the owners of the nightclub is that Nieto did not work in the room, where, like her partner, she was a regular customer, but rather that she sometimes “helped” altruistically by being a friend of clients and owners, according to the lawyer who represents the premises, Francisco Javier Verdú.
For the victim’s lawyer, however, the position of the labor inspection is clear and could mean an “accessory penalty” for the owners of the room, who are being investigated as possible perpetrators of 13 alleged crimes of reckless homicide. Nieto’s family will now ask for a crime against workers’ rights to be added.
Two agents from the National Police who participated in the investigation in the days after the fire and who have declared that the security plans failed, also passed through the investigating court number 3 of Murcia this Friday, as expert witnesses. prevention and emergency of burning rooms, according to several sources present at the session, which takes place behind closed doors. The agents have corroborated the reports that the fire originated in the Teatre nightclub as a result of misuse of a cold fire machine, and have also put in their sights the project that the owners of that nightclub made to divide the industrial warehouse in which it is located into two. In that warehouse, a plasterboard wall was built, which was the one that separated the two damaged nightclubs. The architect who carried out that project is called to testify as a witness on June 18.
Another of the lawyers who represents two of the people who died in the fire, José Manuel Muñoz Ortín, said at the exit that the police referred to the fact that Fonda Milagos did not have emergency exits: the only door was the of general access to the premises, since the other two exits were on the plasterboard wall that separated that premises from the other, Teatre, so they did not lead to the street or a safe place. Furthermore, they were locked.
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The head of the Fire Extinguishing Service of the Murcia City Council, another of the testifiers today, has limited himself to exhaustively detailing the timeline of action of the firefighters. According to what he said, the first crew arrived at the scene of the fire only four minutes after receiving the warning, but found a fire already developed, of great virulence, with smoke at ground level and temperatures above 500 degrees. so they could not enter the room in search of possible victims. He has also confirmed reports that one of Teatre’s emergency exits was closed with padlocks, but has not gone into assessing possible failures in the emergency systems because, he has said, it does not fall within his powers.
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