Overview
- Six young people died in the coastal fall at El Bocal, three of them from Bizkaia, as authorities continue an official investigation.
- The inquiry centers on the wooden walkway that failed and on a hazard report made to 112 roughly a day before the collapse.
- Mayor Gema Igual says a local police agent who took the 112 call did not escalate it, and the city has opened a disciplinary file after the call was neither recorded nor logged as an incident.
- Responsibility for upkeep is contested between the Santander Town Hall and the Demarcación de Costas, with a 2016 €400,000 completion plan stalled and the central government disputing the mayor’s claims.
- Government and city officials are preparing for judicial proceedings that could assign culpability, while questions have also been raised over the government delegate’s absence during the rescue operation.