Julian Robles, father of the 25-year-old waiter, who died last Friday night in the fire at the Burro Canaglia restaurant in Manuel Becerra (Madrid), explained today that his son already warned of the danger in the bar where he worked for dishes flambéed with fire and that a few days ago he wrote a song entitled 'The room on fire'. "You will cry for me," said the lyrics, which had not yet been published on any platform, according to his father, who already lost another young son years ago.

The deceased young man, who had only been working in the place for a week, had an incipient career as a singer and composer of lyrics with urban rhythms, where he had become a finalist in important hip-hop competitions nationwide. His music, a combination of rap, trap and reggeton, had about 2,500 loyal monthly listeners, according to Spotify data. In addition, he had starred in different video clips that combined a dark atmosphere with a retro image of the 90s and was studying guitar and piano.

The father has also indicated that they will report what happened and will ask for responsibilities from the owners of the premises in case the death of his son could be a reckless homicide. "We are going to take the case to court so that this does not happen anymore, his death must serve a purpose. The décor was a plot and a bomb. It should be a fireproof decoration, "he said. "These plants can't be in restaurants like this. My brother was in the place and sent me a picture of my son and I noticed that something was going to happen to him when I saw the pizza from hell, "added the father.

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, said Monday that it will be justice that will have to "check" if the decoration of the restaurant that burned on Friday night "conformed to the prescriptions of the license" and the regulations of the Consistory.

Friday night became a tragedy for the diners of the Burro Canaglia restaurant, when around 23.00 the premises, small and with about 30 people inside, burned by a flame that reached the roof of the establishment after flambear a dish one of the waiters. The fire spread very quickly through the plastic decoration of artificial vegetation of the ceiling and walls of the interior, and diners and employees were locked inside, claiming two victims: a customer and a waiter.

Almeida wanted to be "extremely prudent and cautious" when talking about "specific license terms", and he has been "for a reason: because there is a judicial process that is already underway, and in that judicial process all criminal responsibilities that may exist have to be purged". "The truth is that it did have a license, that license covered the use that this restaurant had, and, in relation to the ornamentation or decoration that this restaurant had, that is what will have to be verified, if it conformed to the prescriptions of the license and the regulatory prescriptions of the City of Madrid in terms of flame retardant materials that may be in the field of decoration and ornamentation ", Almeida has abounded.

"We have a series of prescriptions, as they appear in the license, where it is stated that it must have the corresponding approval according to the fire protection regulations of the City of Madrid itself," the mayor continued. He has also said that the "only notification" by the restaurant that he knows that the Madrid City Council has is "that of the ownership of the license", that is, that "a change of ownership was requested".

"If there was any other type of modification, without consulting or without carrying out the corresponding procedure and does not meet the requirements, it is what will now have to be settled in judicial process, and that is why I say, as mayor of Madrid, thatI have to be extremely respectful of the judicial times", he has developed.

And when asked if the municipal technicians had previously seen the decoration of the premises, Almeida has insisted that no change of activity was transferred to the City Council "or anything like that", "or a regime of works". "The only thing that is transferred to the City Council is a change in the ownership of the premises," he reiterated.

Sources in the area of Urban Development indicate that the decorative elements are not subject to the license of a local -they add that the changes of decoration, such as furniture, do not require a municipal license as long as they do not modify industrial or essential elements such as evacuation or gauging-, although these ornamental elements have to comply with the regulations against fires in force and with the prescriptions that come in the licenses to in this respect.

Thus, "all decorative elements must comply with fire regulations and those responsible must have the certificates that prove it." The same sources add that the decorative elements cannot affect essential elements such as evacuation or, if they do, "they would need a municipal license", while stressing that all this will be determined by the open investigation.

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