TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
It is the most deadly fire in France since 2005. In August 2016, fourteen people, most of them young people who came to celebrate a birthday, were perishing at the "Cuba Libre" bar in Rouen.
As the trial of this tragedy begins on Monday, the father of a victim testifies at the microphone of Europe 1. "It's been three years since my name is no longer Daddy ... They will never call me again Dad, I will never have little children ... On the night of the drama, from August 5 to 6, 2016, my life stopped, "said the voice filled with emotion, Johnny Autin, the father of Mégane.
That night, the victims were celebrating 20 years of a young woman in the basement of this bar, laid out without authorization in nightclubs. Two candles of the birthday cake, like sparkling fountain, ignited the ceiling of the narrow staircase, very steep and low ceiling. The victims could not escape, the only emergency door having been locked.
"The escape route was locked, they had no way to escape"
The two managers of "Cuba Libre" respond from Monday of the long series of negligence that led to the disaster. "They were caught in a trap in this cellar turned into a disco, there was only one way out.The emergency exit was locked, they had no way to escape," laments Johnny autin.
"When I go to the cinema, I do not think to go to see if the emergency door is open, the young people are the same.They entered the joy of their 20 years in a place to have fun, thinking to be safe, now we need answers, "he hopes. The defendants, whose criminal records are blank, incur five years of imprisonment and 76,500 euros in fines.