Alleged Arson at Club Described in Trial
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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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