British papers hone in on push for criminal charges after inquiry blames 2017 disaster on government failures and dishonesty of companies
, which concluded that the deaths of 72 people were avoidable and blamed “decades of failure” by central government to stop the spread of combustible cladding combined with the “systematic dishonesty” of the multimillion-dollar companies producing it.headlined its story “Grenfell: a disaster caused by ‘dishonesty and greed’”.
ran with “Grenfell: the 26-year countdown to disaster”, writing that warning signs that could have averted the tragedy were “ignored for at least 26 years”.headlined its story “72 killed by: dishonesty indifference complacency”, writing that the “damning report” had exposed the “‘path to disaster’ that turned Grenfell Tower into death trap”.
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