Inspection of burnt Murcia nightclub approved despite lack of license

One of the two clubs that burned down early this Sunday in Murcia, Spain, received approval for a health inspection carried out by the city council in March this year. But despite the inspection, the night establishment not only did not have a municipal license, but also had an order to cease operations from 2022, according to the municipality cited by the publication. El Espanol.

According to the newspaper, the inspection report of the Teatr nightclub was approved and drawn up by the Chamber a month after the same health service warned of some shortcomings in its sanitary and hygienic condition.

“All deficiencies identified during the previous inspection visit on February 9, 2023 have been eliminated. The facilities meet sanitary and hygienic conditions, and therefore I am registering them in the Autonomous Medical Register of Food Retail Enterprises,” says the document signed by the employee Murcia Consistory.

According to El EspanolAndrés Guerrero, member of the Chamber council and responsible for urban planning until the municipal elections in May, announced this Monday at a press conference that the company did not have a license, and also reported that from an administrative point of view the Fonda Milagros and Teatre nightclubs were a single space. Teatre SL

As mentioned Efeand according to both data given El EspanolThe facilities operated without a license for more than a year and a half as the council ordered a closure in January 2022, deeming that new licenses to open and operate were needed to divide the facilities. This prompted the company to present a still-unfinished legalization project in March 2022.