SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 2 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judicial authority has archived the criminal investigation opened in the case of the man who died in November 2021 in the course of cleaning the roofs derived from the volcanic eruption in La Palma, after certifying that the death occurred “accidentally”. due to carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide poisoning, that is, from breathing the toxic fumes from the La Palma volcano.
The Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Los Llanos de Aridane issued in recent days the order that agrees to the provisional dismissal and the file of the preliminary proceedings opened as a result of the discovery on November 13, 2021 of the corpse of a 72-year-old man years in the garage of his house in Las Manchas, one of the exclusion zones established due to the volcanic eruption on La Palma.
The investigation began the day before, November 12, when the family of the deceased today reported his disappearance, explaining that he had not returned home after going to the house as part of the convoy that had entered the exclusion zone that day to roof cleaning.
The forensic report derived from the autopsy of the corpse showed that death had occurred due to “carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide poisoning”, dating the death between 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on November 12, 2021 and describing the etiology as “accidental”.
The judicial resolution allows us to conclusively affirm that the eruption of the La Palma volcano that took place between September 18 and December 13, 2021 caused one fatality.
