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Grenfell survivors accuse government of fire safety âRussian rouletteâ
Ministers have failed to fix hundreds of thousands of dangerous homes in four years since disaster, say campaigners
Monday is the fourth anniversary of the fire in which 72 people died. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Monday is the fourth anniversary of the fire in which 72 people died. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Mon 14 Jun 2021 00.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 14 Jun 2021 00.11 EDT
Survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster have accused the government of playing âRussian rouletteâ by failing to fix hundreds of thousands of high-rise homes with similar fire safety defects.
Before Mondayâs fourth anniversary of the fire, Ed Daffarn, a 16th-floor resident, said: âThis stuff still littering this country is a recipe for disaster and they canât say they havenât been warned ⦠If they donât get this stuff off the buildings there will be another Grenfell.â
BBC News
By Vinnie O Dowd & Tom Symonds
BBC News
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A self-described whistleblower at the company which made the cladding used on Grenfell Tower has refused new requests to give evidence to the public inquiry.
Claude Wehrle, who worked for Arconic, says he fears he might breach a law in France which prevents evidence being given to proceedings abroad.
An inquiry letter seen by the BBC reveals he is one of at least two employees who are holding out.
Seventy-two people were killed in the fire in North Kensington in June 2017.
The inquiry is now in its second phase and is examining the causes of the fire, including how the Grenfell Tower came to be in a condition which allowed the blaze to spread in the way it did.