City inspectors visited the building on multiple occasions throughout the years and found numerous irregularities making it “dangerous for life and human safety”
against the building’s owner, Emile-Haim Benamor, related to non-compliant evacuation routes and alarm systems. The city declined to disclose the reasons for that request.According to the lawsuit, Mr. Benamor and Tariq Hasan, the other defendant, knew they were renting units in a dangerous building, “thereby endangering the lives and safety” of everyone in the building.
Mr. Benamor and his lawyer, Alexandre Bergevin, did not answer The Globe’s requests for comment. Neither did Mr. Hasan.on the investigation and enforcement of evacuation routes years before the deadly fire, then quietly lifted the moratorium days after the fire as a direct result of the tragedy. The City of Montreal declined to comment “out of respect for the legal process,” spokesperson Camille Bégin wrote in an e-mail to The Globe.
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