The National Police have arrested two people linked to the Fonda Milagros nightclub, one of the two venues that burned down in Murcia on October 1, leaving 13 people dead. The arrests, as a police spokesman reported to EL PAÍS, took place this Thursday and Friday as part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic incident, and it is not excluded that there will be further arrests in the future days.
Police have not provided any information about those arrested, other than to say both are linked to Fonda Milagros. However, everything indicates that one of them would be the bar’s owner, Daniel Ramírez. His lawyer Francisco Adán confirmed to EL PAÍS that Ramírez gave statements at police stations as an investigator. According to the lawyer, his client was released this morning after answering all the agents’ questions and also taking photos, fingerprints and DNA samples.
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The judicial investigation in this case is being led by the Court of Inquiry No. 3 of Murcia, whose owner has opened proceedings for 13 possible negligent homicide offenses. The confidentiality of the summary was lifted just a week ago, last Friday, November 3, and the lawyers representing the families of several of the deceased have expressed their discomfort that, despite this fact, they have not yet had access to the court proceedings Some details have already reached regional media.
The lawyer Pedro López Graña, who represents the relatives of two of the victims, has filed a formal complaint with the Supreme Court of Murcia about the “unjustified delay” that, in his opinion, has occurred and which, in his opinion, creates an “unreasonable delay” in the proceedings by the court. For the lawyer, the victims’ families have a “large and legitimate interest” in knowing the facts of the case and possibly taking appropriate legal action, and he believes that depriving them of this information exposes them to “judicial abuse.”
Graña has pointed out that this situation is “neither usual nor reasonable” since it violates the “principle of equality” between the parties from the moment that some have access to the summary and others do not, which is why he called for this situation be put to an end.
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For his part, the lawyer José Manuel Muñoz Ortín, who represents the families of two other deceased people and who has not yet had access to the court proceedings, believes that this situation is due to the court’s lack of human resources, which, in his opinion, it should be for the in dealing with a case as complex as this one. In his opinion, there was a bad approach on the part of the Supreme Court, which did not plan for this increase in funds that he wants to formally request from his office.
The lawyer formally requested this Friday that the court open the investigation against the officials removed by the Murcia City Council for their association with the management of the licenses of the damaged nightclubs, for which a cease and desist order had been issued. Activity that was not executed. He has also requested that the current councilor for the environment, Antonio Navarro (PP), and the previous councilor Andrés Guerrero (PSOE), both of whom were in office when this dossier on the closure of the nightclubs was drawn up, and that of the mayor as appear examined. from Murcia, José Ballesta (PP), as a witness in this case. This lawyer has also requested that the Murcia City Council not appear in the case and that a separate piece be opened to investigate the possible administrative responsibilities of the case.
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