The relatives of four of the ten who died in the fire of a building in the Campanar neighborhood of València announced this Monday that they will appeal the file of the case issued last Friday by the Court of Instruction number 9, just two weeks after the event.
The judge agreed, with the support of the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, to provisionally dismiss the proceedings after ruling out the criminal or delinquent origin of this event, and allowed access to the insurance companies’ experts.
In statements to EFE, the lawyer Ignacio Grau, who represents the father of the man who died in the fire along with his wife and two small children, has regretted the filing of the case so early without even admitting the appearances of the victims and, in consequently, without allowing access to what has been instructed.
“We have the right to know what happened, the investigation, to propose evidence or in any case to appeal the proceedings. They have lifted the secrecy of the summary in the same order in which the dismissal is issued. We do not know what has been done,” this lawyer has explained.
“We do not know if -the fire- was a fortuitous event, if it is a civil matter or if there are criminal responsibilities,” he stressed. This lawyer has sent a letter to the court in which, first of all, he requests that he be considered a person in the case and that he be given time to appeal the dismissal.
Furthermore, it announces that otherwise it will file an appeal for reform alleging defenselessness and in which compliance with the provisions of the Victim Statute will be claimed.
