A Spanish nightclub ravaged by a fatal fire on Sunday was ordered to close in 2022 because it lacked a proper license, prompting questions over why authorities had not shut down the venue where more than a dozen people died.
Officials issued a closure order for the nightclub in the city of Murcia in January 2022, a top official in charge of licenses, told reporters on Monday. Antonio Navarro said the city reissued the decree in October 2022, after the owner’s unsuccessful appeal of the closure. “The only one responsible for this is the company, which in spite of communications to close , paid no attention to it,” Navarro said.
Firefighters at the scene of the blaze said there were questions over whether La Fonda had an emergency exit, according to Navarro’s predecessor, Andres Francisco Guerrero. The walls separating the two nightclubs were made of plasterboard. Navarro and Guerrero dismissed reporters’ questions about whether city inspectors or local police could have taken more action to shut down the nightclub deemed to be in non-compliance.
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