Austrian businessman Christian Arnsteiner was apprehended this morning and is expected to be taken to the Via Alemanya court in the island capital Palma this afternoon.
Austrian businessman Christian Arnsteiner was arrested this morning in PalmaThe owner of a popular beach club in Majorca where four people were killed in a terrace collapse has been arrested for manslaughter as cops revealed the illegal 'overloaded' structure 'had not been reinforced'.
British tourists were feared to have been among the casualties in the May 23 tragedy before it emerged that most of the tourists in the establishment were Dutch. Around one hundred emergency responders raced to the scene of the incident, identified locally as a beach bar in the city called the Medusa Beach ClubIn a statement confirming the arrest today, National Police in Majorca said: 'The Homicide Group of the National Police has arrested the head of a company that operated a business that suffered a partial collapse.
'The emergency services of the National Police, Local Police, Fire Brigade and several ambulances attended to those affected'. 'The structure had not been reinforced for such use and as a result of the modifications had been overloaded with weight,' the statement continued. At the scene of the horror collapse last month, it was reported that several customers had been dancing in the 'chill out' zone when the terrace suddenly collapsed at their feet.
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