The Investigative Court number 9 of Valencia has provisionally agreed to dismiss the case opened for the fire of two blocks of flats in the Campanar area, which resulted in 10 fatalities, as the Police ruled out a criminal origin of the fire.
As reported by the public ministry, the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia of the National Police Corps has informed the court that the first investigations allow us to rule out the criminal or delinquent origin of the fire in the buildings on Rafael Alberi Street, number 2, in Valencia.
The court, in view of this information, has provisionally agreed to dismiss the proceedings pending the conclusion of the appropriate police investigations and analysis, which continue to clarify the specific origin of the fire that took place on February 22.
On the other hand, the investigating court has authorized access by the insurance companies to the damaged property, with police supervision, in order to allow the appropriate steps to be taken to compensate the injured parties, since this measure does not interfere with police investigations. .
The fire started on February 22, around 5:30 p.m., in apartment 86 of one of the two buildings made up of 138 properties that were destroyed by the fire.
Barely an hour after the fire started, the flames had devoured the two blocks of flats, 10 and 14 floors, in which about 450 residents lived. As a result, 10 people died and another 15 were injured, including seven firefighters.
As a result of the fire declared in these buildings built in 2009 - a time of the real estate boom - by a developer that went bankrupt, the entire emergency operation was launched - firefighters, police, health workers, forensics - and a case was opened. judicial to investigate what happened and determine the causes of the fire, which spread in record time. Now the court has provisionally archived the proceedings as the Police did not see a criminal origin of the fire.
