Citing ‘incompetence,’ ‘dishonesty and greed,’ public inquiry chair says builders, manufacturers, government officials and local authorities were all to blame for blaze that killed 72 people
Messages are left on a wall of condolences near the covered remains of Grenfell Tower, on the day of the publication of the second report of the U.K. public inquiry into the deadly 2017 fire, in London, September 4, 2024.It took just 20 minutes for a fire to tear through the 23-storey Grenfell Tower apartment building in west London in 2017 and only a few hours more for it to kill 72 people.
“The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable,” Mr. Moore-Bick said during a news conference. Not all of those involved in Grenfell “bear the same degree of responsibility for the eventual disaster. But as our report shows, all contributed to it in one way or another. In most cases, through incompetence, but in some cases, through dishonesty and greed.”
London’s Metropolitan Police have been conducting a criminal probe that has focused on 19 companies and 58 individuals. On Wednesday, the force said the investigation will take at least another year to complete. “This will lead to the strongest possible evidence being presented to the Crown Prosecution Service so they can make charging decisions,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy.
The fire was the culmination of “decades of failure” by the government and the construction industry “to look carefully into the danger of incorporating combustible materials into the external walls of high-rise residential buildings and to act on the information available to them,” the report said. Tenants viewed the council as uncaring and bullying, while the council saw some occupants as militant troublemakers, the report said. In the end, however, Mr. Moore-Bick said the responsibility for maintaining proper relations was with the council, which “lost sight of the fact that the residents were people who depended on it for a safe and decent home and the privacy and dignity that a home should provide.
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