Overview
- The February 21, 2025 food-court roof collapse at Real Plaza Trujillo killed six people and injured more than 90.
- The case remains in the preparatory stage with no formal charges as prosecutors await the Fiscalía’s multidisciplinary pericia.
- The final report is expected to determine whether failures in design, construction, municipal supervision or maintenance caused the collapse and to indicate possible offenses such as homicide or culpable injuries.
- Real Plaza says it has reached compensation agreements with almost all affected people, though some families remain without settlements; lawyer David Acosta says his client Jhosmar Rodríguez and the family of Harumi Carbajal did reach agreements.
- With the mall still closed, 10 of 120 nearby businesses have already shuttered and 110 risk closure, a local entrepreneurs’ group warns, while an economist labels the ongoing shutdown an “excess” that eliminated roughly 1,000 in-mall businesses and about 8,000 jobs and cut nearby sales by 40–50%.