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.

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    23 hours ago

    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.

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      18 hours ago

      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.