Noa de la Torre Valencia
Valencia
Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-11:13
Valencia The judge archives the investigation into the Campanar fire after not seeing signs of a crime
Last Friday, the judge filed the judicial case regarding the fire at the
Campanar
building in Valencia, not seeing any evidence of a crime.
The fire, which spread in a matter of minutes across the entire façade of two blocks of flats and caused ten fatalities, was a "fortuitous accident."
And its origin was not in the motor of a balcony awning as was originally considered, but in a kitchen appliance.
This was confirmed this Monday by the Government delegate in the Valencian Community,
Pilar Bernabé
, who stated that the investigations of the
National Police
point to this hypothesis as the most probable cause.
This is what is included in the summary of the case whose secrecy has also just been lifted by the judge.
The delegate has stated that in the judicial case opened for this incident, it has been ruled out that there is a "criminal indication", so the insurers can now enter the interior of the building and carry out their work so that the affected people for this sinister "they can start their life project again."
On February 26, four days after the fire, sources close to the investigation indicated that the incident could have been caused by a short circuit in the awning mechanism of apartment 86, according to the preliminary report once the
Scientific Police
inspection was completed. .