The six-year inquiry devotes words to blame ‘decades of failure’ by governments, inefficiency, protraction, and selfishness.
A public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower in London in 2017, which killed 72 people, has stated that discrepancies, recklessness, and selfishness were the causes of the disaster.
Presented on Wednesday after a six-year investigation, the final report said the United Kingdom governments’ failures for decades, officials’ apathy to safety, deceitful and negligent producers and contractors of building materials and products, and firefighters’ absence of plan were the major causes of the tragedy.
Residents of the 24-story block were “grossly let down” year after year, according to Martin Moore-Bick at the news conference on Wednesday. “The plain fact of the matter is there are all the other deaths, which were all preventable in the first place.”
He said that due to the extended scope and more than 300 public hearings and over 1,600 witness statements, the two-phase investigation took more time than anticipated; moreover, it found many more matters of concern than expected.
The much-anticipated report said that all the elements pointed out played to some extent to the fast spreading of the fire and inability to save residents. This was mostly because of indomitable; the chairman, however, stated that there were other cases of dishonesty and greed.
The first part of the investigation concluded that the fire had been aided by the cladding materials identified in the building, which were of the aluminum composite material ACM, a combination of aluminum and plastic.
