Santo Domingo. – Following the roof collapse in the Jet Set disco from Santo Domingo who left a balance of 231 dead and more than 180 injuredthe Dominican government recognized on Monday the existence of a “Legal emptiness” in terms of infrastructure supervision, admitting that Current legislation does not contemplate the obligation to control works raised by the private sector.
“There is a vacuum with regard to the mandatory supervision of private works, there is no obligation, so we have to take special measures such as the creation of a bill that corrects that situation (…), there is a vacuum that we have to solve,” said Dominican President Luis Abinader on Monday.
In his usual press conference on Monday, Abinader said that the Dominican government and the people hope that “justice” will be done regarding the responsibility of the disaster, although his legal consultant, Antoliano Peralta, said that “no one can foresee the course” that he takes a judicial process and recalled that justice has its own protocol outside the Executive Power.
Last Tuesday, the roof of the Jet Set disco collapsed over the hundreds of people who enjoyed a party enlivened by the Rubby Pérez merenguero, who lost his life in the place, as well as one of his musicians.
Of the 231 victims, 221 died in the same place – among them the former Major Leagues Octavio Dotel, the governor of Montecristi (northwest of the country), Nelsy Cruz, and the designer Martín Polanco – while another 10 have died in health centers.
Technical and Fiscal Research
Abinader emphasized that the National Office of Seismic Evaluation and Vulnerability of Infrastructure and Buildings (UNESVIE) has begun a study to determine the technical causes of the tragedy, “since the government and the population require it.”
Uonesvie expects that in about three months there will be results on what happened in Jet Set, which already suffered a partial fire in its facilities in 2023.
As reported by this entity on their social networks, two engineers teams work in the investigation, one of them in charge of remains and another with the pieces “and then reproduce the building as it was, make an equal model, to later put all the load it had on the roof, among other things,” according to the general director of the OSVIE, Leonardo Reyes Madera.
For its part, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) Dominican has opened an investigation, as sources from the Public Ministry confirmed on Monday.
The sources added that the Attorney General of the Republic, Yeni Berenice, instructed the Persecution Directorate and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Dominican capital to carry out the corresponding investigations.
In relation to this, one of Rubby Pérez’s daughters, Zulinka, announced that he will demand the owners of the establishment when considering that there was negligence.
Solidarity and support
The Mayor of New York, Eric AdamS, he offered on Monday in Santo Domingo all his support for the Dominican Republic after the collapse in the disco, an event that has made his heart “completely broken.”
“I am going to offer my assistance, do everything possible to prevent something like that again,” said Adams, who expressed the love and solidarity of his city with the Dominican Republic, to add: “I am not only the mayor of New York, I am your brother, and your brother is mourning with you and suffers with you.”
Adams, visiting Santo Domingo, went to the nightclub on Monday, where he stopped at the candles that the Dominicans deposit at his doors, he contemplated photographs of the victims and read some of the message addressed to them, before accessing the interior of what remains of the disco.
A place that, after what happened, some institutions and legislators have asked the Executive Power to declare public utility to build on their land a memorial to which the families of the victims and the population in general can go to remember them.
