Colectiv fire: One year on
While Romania's president and its promoters' association have hailed the progress made towards stamping out corruption, the survivors of October's tragedy await justice
News By | 1 November 2016
Together with the attack on the Bataclan some two weeks later, the tragic fire at the 700-capacity Colectiv nightclub in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, on 30 October 2015 is one of the worst disasters to hit the European live music industry – and Europe in general – in living memory.
Sixty-four people are known to have died and close to 150 were injured, with many still in hospital, after pyrotechnics ignited inflammable acoustic foam at a show by metalcore band Goodbye to Gravity, with up to 500 people…
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