Jacques Moretti has been placed in pretrial detention for at least three months. He and his wife, Jessica Moretti, are under investigation over possible negligence.
Jacques Moretti has been placed in pretrial detention for at least three months. He and his wife, Jessica Moretti, are under investigation over possible negligence.
It could only be negligence to cover the ceiling with flammable materials then allow open flames. What’s shocking is how common it is for this exact scenario to play out–acoustic foam that is not fire resistant and pyrotechnics.
There is a bar/restaurant nearby me where they had to shut down their restaurant due to repeated health violations. They converted into only a bar but were eventually forced to stop serving alcohol because they kept overserving people and serving minors–this caused them to close down entirely. Weirder: it’s a historical building. A company who specializes in restoring neon signs offered to do it for free and the owner apparently screamed at them until they left.
The moral? These are probably terrible people.
He admitted the emergency exit was locked. When they unlocked it after the fire, there were patrons bodies piled up in front of it.
His negligence absolutely contributed to those people’s deaths.
jfc
Was the bar up to code? I have no idea what building codes are like in Europe. I get the feeling that even if codes are as strict as the US, a lot of older dangerous or disabled-unfriendly buildings are grandfathered in due to the age of cities there.
I know the answer already: did it have fire sprinklers? I remember they made a recreation of the Station Nightclub fire (Rhode Island 2003), but with fire sprinklers.
Even with the flammable acoustic foam covering the walls, the conclusion from the test is that sprinklers would have likely prevented all of the fatalities and drastically reduced injuries.
Safety codes are written in blood.