Overview
- The court shifted the 112 call taker from witness to investigated after a statement of about 45 minutes, bringing the total under investigation to four.
- The list now includes the 112 employee, two officials from Demarcación de Costas, and a local police officer who received the forwarded alert.
- The case hinges on a neighbor’s call the day before warning that the El Bocal walkway was in poor shape, with the collapse later killing six young people and injuring one more.
- The police officer’s lawyer said the caller described a structural failure and argued 112 should have alerted Santander’s firefighters under Cantabria’s emergency protocols.
- Under Spanish procedure, being named an investigated person grants the right to a lawyer and to remain silent, which shows the court is probing possible failures in handling the warning.