The Rahova explosion file. The brother of the dead pregnant woman was examined by INML specialists. The damages requested by the family are approximately 1.5 million euros

Răzvan, 17 years old, is the brother of the young pregnant woman who died on October 17 in the explosion in the eight-story building located in the Rahova neighborhood of the Capital. At this moment, the value of the damages requested by the family is around one and a half million euros.

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For News.ro, Răzvan told what happened on October 17, the day the explosion took place.

“I managed to enter the apartment only at the time of the explosion. When I came out, I felt my feet bleeding, I quickly went in to get a pair of slippers and went downstairs.”

Răzvan says that he remembers the moment of the explosion perfectly: he tried to save his sister, called 112 and was taken over by SMURD, being lucid the whole time.

He says that the situation is very difficult for all tenants, who have been left without homes, and he hopes that the culprits will be found and compensated. He was not allowed to re-enter the block as the area is still sealed off by police. In the apartment, the bathroom and the bedroom are destroyed, but the rest of the space is intact.

Prison for the guilty, demands Răzvan, the brother of the pregnant young woman who died in the explosion in Rahova. In the explosion on October 17, the boy was seriously injured in the chest, head and one of the arms. INML's expertise will concretely establish how many days of medical care he needs, a factor that could reconfigure the level of the claimed damages.

“I want to continue psychological treatment because I can't live like this. My sister's death is the hardest thing for me”

Adrian Cuculis, the family's lawyer: The requested damages are approximately 1.5 million euros

Adrian Cuculis, the family's lawyer, says that the requested damages are somewhere around one and a half million euros. Depending on INML's experience and the necessary additional investigations, which will clearly show the seriousness of the injuries, the amount could be modified.

“Mainly, the expertise, the physical examination was carried out and amazingly it seems that there are some additional things that he has to do, that is, although he went through a CT expertise, he has now been sent from here, from INML, to have the chest examination redone because it seems that he also had some cracked or broken ribs, which somehow changes the logic that we have had so far, in the sense of medical care.

The minor should have stayed – and more than likely will stay – until March either with an orthosis or with something to hold his shoulder together, because there were some pretty serious injuries when he got out of there, from the block that exploded, there are even pictures from the scene with his face full of blood and so on.

The prosecutor ordered by ordinance, preliminary, that is, before the expert report was made, what are the conclusions of the examination precisely to know in which direction to go with the file, and at the moment the family is going to go to the children's hospital to do this CT, just to see more clearly what the injuries are.

They are already constituted as a civil party in the criminal process and then, of course, these expertises will outline even better the injuries and, of course, the extent of the damages that they are asking for”explained the lawyer.

Who is the family suing? What will happen next? Research is now underway. It is not excluded that during them there will be a much more extensive procedural framework, says lawyer Adrian Cuculis. The family of the dead young woman will be a civil party against those who will be found guilty of causing the explosion.

Lawyer Adrian Cuculis says that, beyond what is seen in public, there is a dispute between the electricity supplier and the gas supplier, each trying to place responsibility on the other. The gas supplier would suggest that electrical wires placed too close would have caused the short circuit that affected the gas line, leading to the leak and explosion.

For now, says the lawyer, the Public Prosecutor's Office has indicted Distrigaz, but the investigation could expand the circle of those responsible, and the victims will form a civil party against those found guilty.

The mother of the two young people: “The last ultrasound said that she gave birth on Christmas. She had a girl”

The mother of Răzvan and Mirela, the 24-year-old young woman 7 months pregnant who died in the explosion in the apartment building in Rahova, made disturbing statements. She says she found out after 11 hours that her daughter had died.

In addition, the woman says, she cannot forget how a certain person who took DNA samples in the case of her daughter, without specifying the person's name, told her that the young woman was unrecognizable, so that later the woman found out, at the forensic examination, that her daughter's body was whole.

“Think about what holidays are coming in the conditions where at the last ultrasound she said she was giving birth on Christmas. He had a little girl (…) Tomorrow if ten blocks explode, hundreds of people will die because we are not prepared”

The woman says that she was left without clear information for hours, although the girl's brother had indicated exactly where she was. She waited over 11 hours to find out her daughter had died and says it was a form of “torture“.

Although she felt that her daughter was dead, the authorities asked her to be patient and told her that they were searching or that the girl was being resuscitated, while the word was already heard through the police station that she had been found “the third victim”. The mother finds the way the situation was handled baffling and incomprehensible.

“I want to live to see at least one more time the gentleman who came to take my DNA samples. That man, if he doesn't have children, I don't want to give him Dumbezeu ever in this life. Because he told me very clearly: “Lady, you know, I have to take your samples”.

Why should you take my samples, it's not a maternity hospital with a hundred pregnant women, it's just one pregnant woman”. “Yes, but you know…”

“What do I know, my child is a piece of meat?” “Well, yes.”

And when I came down here, prepared with clothes prepared to her size, because I thought that they should not be small, as they say, the gentleman from the morgue with a younger lady…I asked them to put them in the coffin, however. That was my request. And they said: Well, don't you want us to dress it? Well, what do you have? She is whole, madam, one nail is missing.”

The woman says that, on Saturday, she was told that her daughter had died, and she also passed the news on to Răzvan. Two hours later, a representative confirmed the same information, but on Monday he learned that the girl was, in fact, alive.

“How can you say that to a parent? It's cruelty,” she says. At the time of the explosion, she was not at home, dividing herself between caring for her mother and her minor son.

Prosecutors are interviewing several people involved

Prosecutors continue the investigation in the case of the devastating explosion in the Rahova district. Several people involved in this case were summoned to the Prosecutor's Office next to the Bucharest Court of Appeal for hearings on Wednesday.

According to Digi24, the investigation is still focused on identifying those responsible and clarifying how the deflagration took place.

We remind you that the devastating explosion that destroyed a block of flats in Rahova, resulting in the death of three people and the injury of 14 others, was caused by the accumulation of natural gas leaking through two cracks in the supply pipe. The judges showed that the tragedy could have been avoided if the employees of Distrigaz and those of the private company had followed the safety procedures.