Investigators have mentioned they imagine glowing candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fireplace after they got here too near the ceiling. Authorities are wanting into whether or not soundproofing materials on the ceiling conformed with laws and whether or not the candles have been permitted to be used within the bar. Hearth security inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019.
The severity of burns made it difficult to identify some victims, requiring households to produce authorities with DNA samples. Police have mentioned lots of the victims have been of their teenagers to mid-20s.
An post-mortem has been ordered for 5 of the six Italian victims and has been delegated to the prosecutors’ places of work in Milan, Bologna, and Genoa, the place the our bodies of the victims have been returned.
“What occurred shouldn’t be a catastrophe: It’s the results of too many individuals who didn’t do their job or who thought they have been making straightforward cash,” Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni mentioned throughout a press convention on Friday. “These accountable should be recognized and prosecuted.”
Meloni mentioned the State Legal professional Normal’s Workplace has contacted the Swiss Legal professional Normal to comply with the investigation. She additionally confirmed that the Rome Prosecutor’s Workplace has began a separate probe.
“The households have my phrase that they won’t be left alone whereas they search justice,” she added.
The Paris prosecutor’s workplace Monday introduced that it was opening a probe to help the Swiss investigation and make it simpler for households of French victims to speak with Swiss investigators. 9 French residents have been killed, the youngest of them aged 14, and 23 others have been injured.
