Four days have passed since a devastating fire in the building that housed the Teatre and Fonda nightclubs killed 13 people. Early Sunday morning this tragedy occurred in the Atalayas de Murcia leisure area, surrounded by unknowns and irregularities.
The case took a 180-degree turn when it came to light that the space had had a closure order for a year. "Teatre and Fonda Milagros, the two affected premises, have opened without authorization since the order to cease activity, which was issued in October 2022," said the Urban Planning Councilor of the Murcia City Council, Antonio Navarro. Now, a former worker at the store wanted to put his experience on the table.
The program The Critical Look has managed to locate a former employee of the nightclub and has decided to reveal the irregularities that it had seen over the months. "He hasn't worked in it for a year. In fact, on the day of the fire he was inside, he had that pain, he says that it was impossible to get the people who were upstairs out of there," the reporter began to relate.
From the beginning, this person makes it clear: "They did not have approved emergency exits." According to him, the establishment had some, "but they were never available as a way out of the excess of decoration and things that were in that establishment. A lot of junk, super-loaded...".
But that is not all. The former worker wanted to address the issue of licenses. “There was a small office downstairs where everything was kept, where all the folders and all the paperwork were. Because they had everything in order, I know that.” With this, he has made it clear that he has seen documentation of the Fonda nightclub.
Likewise, he reported that the controls followed one another. "Almost every weekend the inspections came and went. I never heard a report that it was closed or that it was not operational because if it had not been operational, the police would not come and leave," he added.
He also wanted to address the pain he feels after what happened and does not understand that "there was no one who could have removed those people from above, who were the ones who died." In addition, she has assured that the nightclub did not have flares, as had been put on the table.
One of the problems with the room was the separation between the two clubs within the same building. "It didn't have walls, that is, they were very fragile divisions," said the former worker. "The scientific police see that there is a division between the two discos exclusively made of plasterboard," the program revealed.
