Overview
- The indictment targets eight members of a 13-person holiday group for intentional arson and requests seven-year prison terms.
- Authorities are also seeking about €100,000 in damages, according to filings reported by local and German media.
- Investigators say lit cigarette ends and a liquid such as beer were thrown onto the reed roof of the Why Not Mallorca bar, igniting the fire.
- The blaze on May 20, 2022 damaged the bar, a brothel beneath it, a private apartment, and parts of a neighboring hotel, and several people were lightly injured.
- Defense lawyer María Barbancho maintains the defendants’ innocence, citing numerous exculpatory indications in the case file, and no trial date has been set.