“Grenfell: Revelations about a deadly fire”: a tragedy that should have been avoided
The Netflix documentary explores the devastating fire that ravaged a London social housing tower in 2017. "Grenfell: Revelations of a Deadly Fire" has been praised by the British press. The film highlights the extent to which this tragedy, which shocked the country, resulted from a series of negligence.
Less than €6,000. According to calculations presented in Grenfell: A Deadly Fire Revealed, released on Netflix on June 20, that's the additional cost it would have cost to equip Grenfell Tower with fireproof cladding during the renovations undertaken between 2015 and 2016.
The social housing building that caught fire on June 14, 2017, in West London was clad in panels made of aluminum and plastic. This allowed the flames, caused by a faulty refrigerator in one of the apartments, to spread quickly throughout much of the structure. The blaze, which was devastating , killed 72 people. The disaster traumatized the entire country—and so the British press watched the film released by Netflix with great interest.
The documentary, directed by Olaide Sadiq, looks back at the circumstances of the tragedy, echoing the conclusions of the inquiry report commissioned by the government and published in September 2024. “The film shows, with the considerable help of Peter Apps, a journalist specializing in housing issues [who followed the case closely], that the horror was born from an explosive cocktail of incompetence, lies,
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