Alleged Arson at Club Described in Trial
More than 300 fire survivors and relatives of 63 victims of Sweden’s deadliest blaze gathered as prosecutors described how four young men, upset about a $5 entrance fee, torched a dance hall. The blaze injured more than 200. At the trial in Goteborg--Sweden’s second-largest city, 300 miles southwest of Stockholm--prosecutors alleged that the defendants, who have pleaded not guilty, poured a flammable liquid over chairs in a stairwell, added paper, then set the pile alight. The fire tore through the upstairs dance hall packed with teenagers.
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