The Mossos suspect that the fire with three critical injuries in a house in Lleida was caused by intention
The Catalan police are aware of a previous fight in the same space, which was occupied
BarcelonaIt was half past eight in the evening when the Generalitat Firefighters received the notice of a fire in a house on Maria Montessori Street in Lleida. Three people were evacuated in critical condition, and a third is in a less serious condition after managing to get out on their own. According to police sources, it was an occupied house that was often conflictive, and the last of the conflicts occurred a few hours before the fire, with a fight in the same location. This has started to make the Mossos d'Esquadra suspicious, who have become even more suspicious when they found possible traces of flammable liquid in the fire. Right now, the main hypothesis is that the fire, which could have had a tragic ending, was caused by arson.
Specifically, they are investigating whether a person who has recently left prison - most of the people who frequented that house, according to police sources, have criminal records - started the fire motivated by the initial fight. Whatever the case, the investigation is still at an early stage, and the Mossos investigators must thoroughly analyse the scene of the fire and find the specific point where the fire originated. At the moment, no arrests have been made either. And it would not be the first fire that would have been recorded in that occupied house.
Hospitalized
In this case, the three people who are hospitalised in critical condition - two in the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Lleida and one in the Moisés Broggi Hospital in Sant Joan Despí - were on the first floor of the house, and the fire started on the ground floor. The fourth injured person, who is also in the Arnau de Vilanova, managed to get out on his own. The fire, which was fully developed, was extinguished at half past nine at night.
On Monday night, the Councillor for Citizen Security, Cristina Morón, explained from the scene that the on-duty Urban Planning technician had assessed the structure and it had been agreed to seal off the accesses so that no one could get in. In addition, she reported that the house will be declared a technical ruin in order to demolish it.