With deep sadness, anger is now mixed. During the night of this Saturday, March 15, March 16, an impressive fire devastated the entire “pulse” disco in Kocani, in Macedonia del Norte.
In the disaster, at least 59 people lost their lives and more than 150 were injured, reports the BBC and the American news agency Press Association (AP). Among them, 22 are still serious on Monday.
The catastrophe, which has been awakened since this weekend of strong reactions throughout the country, according to Interior Minister Macedonia Pance Toskovski, the consequence of the facts of “corruption.”
“I had a child and lost it”
The owners of the place would have “omitted” the implementation of several security measures, such as the installation of fire extinguishers or the unlocking of emergency exits. For the families of the victims, some of which are still waiting for news from their relatives, officials must be identified to “take into account.”
In front of the doors of the Skopje hospital, the capital of northern Macedonia, time is for meditation. Among the outbursts, a fifty -year -old man shouts his despair with the journalists present at the spot.
“I had a child and lost it,” says the man from the images of the BBC. “Let me say it in front of everyone, to film me. I am a dead man who lost everything.”
“All of Europe must know,” he continues angry, pointing out the defects in the safety of the building that went to smoke a few days before.
An anger shared by many other families in duel such as Marija Taseva. The surviving young woman lost her sister in the fire of the nightclub.
“I don’t know how, but I found myself on the floor in the impossibility of getting up and that was when people began to trample me,” explains Marija Taseva in the BBC microphone. “My sister is dead. I was saved and she didn’t.”
In a speech delivered this Sunday, March 16, the president of the Macedonia of the North Gordanna Davkova Silijanovska said “in a state of shock,” said Associated Press.
“I still can’t believe that Kocani’s terrible tragedy is a reality. I don’t know what words do my condolences express the parents and relatives of the deceased,” he added.
During the fire, 59 people died burned or suffocated by toxic smoke. In question, the pyrotechnic devices of the nightclub that hang from the ceiling and suspected that it had fired. The doubts corroborated by the images taken in the building and only a few minutes before the start of fire.
According to AFP, the Macedonias authorities have opened an investigation into the possible “corruption” in which more than twenty people are involved, including the son of the owner of the nightclub, the director of the company that administered it and employees of the Ministry of the Economy. It should also be taken into account that, according to the Interior Ministry, the nightclub had no license for the use of pyrotechnic machines.
More than twenty people were interviewed on Monday, March 17 at the beginning of the morning, and the prosecutor requested pre -judes for eight of them.
The list of “omissions” in terms of security of the Pulse nightclub is very long according to the prosecutor’s offices, which oscillates “from the lack of sufficient extinguishers” to the absence of the two emergency exits or necessary smoke detectors, as well as the absence of transition to the standards of outdoor emergency vehicles.
Source: BFM TV
