The Barcelona City Council has summoned the Parcs i Jardins on Friday at 9:00 a.m. to address why the palm tree in the Raval neighborhood that this Thursday split and fell on a girl, who died from the impact, has split.

“All the people involved will meet and we have to work together to clarify the facts,” the deputy mayor and accidental mayoress, Maria Eugènia Gay, who went to the scene and expressed her condolences to relatives, told reporters. and friends of the young.

The consistory has also commissioned a study to clarify why the palm tree has fallen, and for their part, the Mossos d'Esquadra have also opened an investigation into the death of the young woman.

The head of the Barcelona Fire Department, Joan Carles Cejalvo, has detailed that around 4:00 p.m. they received notice that one had fallen and was “affected”.

He has said that it took them five minutes to arrive and once there his health worker verified that the girl had died, so they stopped their work so that the Mossos and the judicial committee could work..

Once the Mossos have taken the necessary samples and the judicial delegation has removed the body, the firefighters have continued their work to remove the palm tree and to be able to reestablish the passage through the street.

Asked about the first indications of why the palm tree has fallen, Cejalvo has answered that they still do not have any hypothesis and has stated that they do not know when was the last time the tree was checked or maintained.

cleaning van

The crown of the fallen palm tree has also impacted on a van of the municipal cleaning service, and the firefighters have also removed it.

A witness to the events, a bar worker from where he witnessed the fall of the tree, explained to Europa Press that the BCNeta employee who was in the truck was unharmed thanks to the fact that at that moment she had gotten out of the vehicle to change the bag of a trash can.