Another premises of the owner of the Murcia nightclub burned in 2019 and continued operating without a license
The businessman in charge of the Murcia nightclub where 13 people died this weekend as a result of the flames, Juan Inglés Rojo, managed another establishment in the Murcia town of San Pedro del Pinatar that burned in 2019 and then continued operating without license. This second location was called Flamingoville and was the subject of a fire at the end of September four years ago.. Precisely, the Murcian authorities revealed this Monday that the room in which 13 people died over the weekend also did not have a license..
The company of the premises that burned in 2019 is Flamingo San Pedro SL and the Pinata city council detected in September 2020 that the establishment was operating without a music license, as recorded in a minutes from the council to which El Confidencial has had access.. Almost a year later, in August 2021, the city council confirmed again that it still did not have that musical license.. The fire at the Flamingo was reported by La Opinión de Murcia, which documented the event with a video.
The businessman Juan Inglés Rojo was the administrator of Flamingo since 2017, according to the Commercial Registry.. In 2018, the company Teatre SL was established, which took over the main premises where another fire occurred this weekend, in this case fatal to 13 people.. Precisely, this Monday it was learned that both the Teatre nightclub and the adjacent room, called La Fonda Milagros, had to have ceased their activity more than a year ago and stopped operating, since there was a closure order that the premises did not comply, so that both have operated “without authorization since the order to cease activity” issued by the previous socialist Government, in January 2022..
Precisely, it was up to the inspection services to check whether the closure of the premises had been carried out and the council has confirmed that the company never obtained municipal permits to divide its establishment into two premises, Teatre and La Fonda, and was operating without authorization from January 2022. This was confirmed in an urgent press conference by the Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Garden and Environment, Antonio Navarro (PP).
The lawyer of the Fonda Milagros room, Francisco Adán, denied this Monday that an order to cease activity was imposed on the premises, contrary to what was stated by the City Council, and has assured that the fire that caused the fire, in which 13 people lost their lives, it occurred in the attached nightclub, Teatre.
Teatre was the original nightclub. It was inaugurated about 20 years ago with a decoration that simulated a classic theater, with all the rooms lined with wood. Recently, a third of the initial surface was segregated to create La Fonda, aimed at the Latin public. Although they were different businesses, they were located within the same industrial warehouse and shared flammable material coatings. It was practically impossible for the fire not to spread from one nightclub to another.