The judge has summoned the technical engineer of the Cullera City Council (Valencia) to testify as the accused in the case of the fatal accident that occurred in August 2022 at the Medusa Festival, in which a 22-year-old boy died and 40 other people had to will be expected.
The citation as investigated of the engineer has been set for February 13. This is the person in charge of supervising the premises and determining that it met the established requirements, as decided by the head of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Sueca.
Sources from the Cullera City Council have indicated that it was a procedure that was expected but they have stressed that the worker is not charged with any crime, for which reason they maintain that one of the companies will have requested their statement.
In all cases, they have been "convinced" that the municipal process is "impeccable" and have commented on their "full confidence" in the work of the technicians. The consistory has stressed that it will collaborate with the Justice and with the investigation of what happened and will hope that it will finally clarify what happened.
This is yet another person investigated in the case of the accident at the festival, along with the legal representative of the Medusa organizing company; those responsible for the companies involved in the provision and assembly of the festival structures; The architect in charge of the technical project There is a person in charge of the external company hired by the Cullera City Council to supervise its infrastructures.
The event occurred in the early morning of August 13. The management of the festival, which evicted the 50.000 people that were in the rectint, suspended the Medusa hours later.
Faults in the stage structure
According to the technical report on the Medusa enclosure, according to published information, there were assembly failures in the anchoring of certain auxiliary structures; the activity project documentation was insufficient is that it did not include all those structures considered auxiliary and hence they were installed without the supervision of the responsible technicians and there were facilities that were not in the initial project.
The event occurred at the moment when an air collapse -warm outburst- soberly impacted the ground where he celebrated the Medusa and produced pits of up to 100 km/h, in addition to a rise in temperature of up to 10ºC and a decrease of humidity This caused the detachment of some structures of the stage and accessories to the rectint, which caused the death of the young man and the injuries to the restaurant.
As a consequence of the event, a 22-year-old young man died and 40 people were assisted, eight of them by the CICU on the spot and 32 taken to hospitals either by ambulance or private transport. Five of them were hospitalized due to fractures. The most seriously ill was a 19-year-old girl who had a spinal fracture.
