Europa Press Valencia
Valencia
Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-12:44
Campanar The owners of the building that burned in Valencia denounce the building agents for serious recklessness
The
Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Valencia
is in favor of reopening the judicial investigation into the fire recorded on February 22 in a building in the
Campanar
area (Valencia) that left 10 fatalities, including two children under three years of age and a days old baby, and 138 homes destroyed.
Specifically, the prosecutor in charge of this procedure has asked the Investigative Court number 9 of Valencia, the body that on March 8 agreed to dismiss the investigation after the
Valencia Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the National Police Corps
reported that The first investigations made it possible to rule out the criminal origin of the fire, which upheld the appeal filed by the father of the man who died along with his wife and two children in the fire, as Europa Press has learned.
The prosecutor asks the judge to consider the appeal for reform, filed by criminal lawyer Ignacio Grau, "given the arguments presented" in his text. Among them, as Europa Press reported, he referred to the fact that the file represented a "double victimization" for his client and requested a reopening of the investigation.
Thus, the prosecutor, in addition to asking the judge to consider the appeal of this party appearing in the procedure, requires the carrying out of different procedures related to the origin and causes of the fire.
The father of the deceased in the fire stated in his appeal that the dismissal was "clearly premature" and stated that it drew "powerful attention" that an order to file the case had been issued without a single report from the
Scientific Police
,
Homicide
,
Fire Department
,
Local Police
or insurers and without a report with a story about what happened explaining how the fire had spread "so quickly and brutally."
What's more, he added that a case was dismissed with 10 deceased in "dramatic circumstances" and experienced live by their loved ones, "and while they are at funerals and in deep mourning, a dismissal is proceeded without counting on anyone and with the secret cause, on the basis of a letter received of half a page and with only four lines related to the event, which neither tells what happened, nor attaches any report, nor gives a causal explanation for anything," it was indicated.
This party considered that "what is a mere provisional statement, the progress of an investigation absolutely in the initial phase and, furthermore, removing the phrase 'criminal or delinquent etiology can be ruled out' from its context had been elevated to the category of definitive." , so the result could not be more heartbreaking."
In this regard, the lawyer recalled in the appeal that article 641 of the Criminal Procedure Law allows for provisional dismissal to be issued only when, after the pertinent investigation, the perpetration of the crime is not justified.
In this case, the lawyer pointed out that a fire of this nature "requires a deep and calm purification of what happened" and added that it is up to the criminal jurisdiction to carry out an ex officio investigation that allows the archive or opens the prosecution, "so that "The families, in both cases, can consider that they have obtained from their public authorities the necessary shelter to help them process their mourning."
"DOUBLE VICTIMIZATION"
"Closing a case falsely, early, prematurely, represents a double victimization for my clients, who clearly see, added to their unspeakable pain, the closure of the ex officio jurisdiction, which in this case is called upon naturally and legally to give an explanation of what happened, the criminal jurisdiction," was added in the appeal.
On the other hand, the lawyer alleged a lack of motivation in the resolution by estimating that the judge accepted, "uncritically", a police report "that does not attach any report or give a technical explanation to anything."