One week from collapse at the Dubrovnik Hotel in Villa Gesell was known video which shows What was the work of the bricklayers like? at the scene a day before the building collapses.
In the images, released by Midday News (eltrece)you can see how four workers were carrying out tasks in what appears to be the exterior of the ground floor. A large number of debris on the floor that correspond to the columns of that sector that were collapsed.
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The footage, obtained from one of the seized cell phones, shows that while two of the bricklayers focused on destroying a particular sector, with picks and drills, two others were talking in the background while having a drink. The video lasts only a few seconds, but it is key for investigators to understand how the tragedy occurred.
Until now The reason for the collapse could not be determined.but from the Municipality of Villa Gesell they confirmed thate work was being carried out at the site that was not approved.
Work continues at the site of the collapse. (AP Photo/Adan González)
Although the building had permission to carry out work on the front part, the elevator shaft and renovations such as floor changes, coatings, paintings, changes to the bathrooms and minor renovations, it did not have permission to carry out structural modifications. Even the Municipality itself had ordered the stoppage of work in August.
Last week, one of the contractors who worked in the hotel that collapsed in Villa Gesell declared before the prosecutor investigating the tragic event and provided key testimony for the advancement of the case. “I was notified of the stoppage of the work in August, I told the owner and the architect, but they told me to continue with the work: ‘Let’s not stop until an order comes from above’”he said before Verónica Zamboni.
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The man also stated that from June to September they changed the windows and doors. Additionally, they painted the rooms from floors one to six. “We don’t touch anything. The owner’s name is Antonio, he came once a week and then an architect, María Paula, who came from time to time because she was on vacation,” he clarified.
One of the men who had been detained, Celso Pérez, told the prosecutor that they never took care of other works other than superficial repairs. “We never touch a beam or a column. We only placed the subframes, they made us move doors in the bathroom of apartment two. The last thing we were doing was painting all the apartments, one through six, we had nothing to do with the elevator work“, held.
He also mentioned that he thought that the balconies “could fall” and that in some parts “there were cracks” as well as problems in the plasters. “The painters covered it with putty,” he explained. “For me the building worked from below. The new aluminum openings were very heavy and that affected it.”he declared. “Us we are not guilty“We always work under the orders of the architect,” noted Pérez, who was in charge of signing the Municipality’s minutes that demanded the cessation of the work.