The relatives of the three victims of the avalanche at the Hotel Bustillo in Bariloche received the bodies and belongings of the deceasedconfirmed from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the province of Río Negro to The Observer. The members who traveled to Argentina carry out the necessary procedures to repatriate the bodies to Uruguay this Fridayas he knew The Observer.
The family was in the offices of the Public Ministry together with representatives of the Uruguayan Consulate on Thursday, and was attended by the Victim Assistance Office of the organism.
The Public Ministry has been investigating the death of Uruguayan tourists since Monday Víctor González Giovanelli, his sister Alba and his brother-in-law Orlando Casellawho died from mud slide which occurred on the afternoon of Monday June 6 and flooded the rooms of the victims.
For the investigation, the judicial body will form a “group of experts specialized in engineering, soil movement, geology”, According to the Public Ministry in a statement. The forensic reports are also part of the case, as is the account of various witnesses.
The tax office also requested documentation about the hotel and the work for a new center being built by the Huinid company on a hillside above the scene of the events. The head of the Cabinet of Bariloche, Marcos Barberis, reported that the work it was not enabled since October 2021 and the retaining wall that failed to stop the mud that entered the hotel was not registeredin statements collected by Clarín and Page 12.
The company had a permit to build a 950 square metersbut an inspection of the Municipality of San Carlos de Bariloche detected in October that a hotel of 3 thousand square meters.
The Misdemeanor Court ruled that the company had to present a new project to obtain the building permit againbut Barberis claimed that “At the time of stoppage (the work) it was in a state and today it has a certain degree of progress”, although he clarified that this advance must be ruled by the Justice.
