Overview

• The Sección Cuarta rejected appeals from victims’ families, affected neighbors and associations when it upheld the May 30 order to provisionally dismiss the investigation.
• The instruction court determined that an accidental refrigerator malfunction triggered the February 2024 blaze, finding no one culpable.
• Investigators applied all rationally possible, necessary, sufficient and adequate investigative tools, satisfying the heightened special diligence required in cases involving loss of life.
• Appeals seeking to examine emergency call records, fire brigade actions and façade materials were dismissed as an unfounded 'fishing expedition'.
• The building’s original aluminium-polyethylene cladding was confirmed to meet contemporaneous M1 standards and has since been replaced with ceramic panels in the reconstruction.