{"id":5006,"date":"2026-08-14T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/casos-de-exito\/kegelbruder-case-ballermann-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:34:56","slug":"kegelbruder-case-ballermann-fire","status":"publish","type":"casos-de-exito","link":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/casos-de-exito\/kegelbruder-case-ballermann-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Kegelbr\u00fcder case \u2014 Ballermann fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mar\u00eda Barbancho represents the so-called \u201cKegelbr\u00fcder\u201d, a group of German tourists charged over a nightclub fire in the Ballermann area of Mallorca in 2022, allegedly started using beer. According to Blick, Barbancho joined the defence and produced a photograph showing an unidentified person smoking on the adjacent balcony\u2014evidence that proved decisive to the provisional release of the eight tourists on bail of \u20ac12,000 each, after almost two months in pre-trial detention. The outlet quotes her verbatim: \u201cWir haben alles gegeben, damit die Jungs endlich frei\u201d (\u201cWe gave it our all<br\/>so the lads could finally be free\u201d).  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Blick (Switzerland), July 15, 2022 \u2014 \u201c<a href=\"Ballermann fire: German Kegelbr&#xFC;der released after two months\">Ballermann-Brand: Deutsche Kegelbr\u00fcder kommen nach zwei Monaten frei<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Proceedings have remained ongoing since then, with the investigation still pending to determine whether the fire was caused by negligence (a sentence of 1 to 3 years) or was intentional (up to 6 years), and with no trial date according to the most recent Mallorca Magazin interview (section 3). Other German outlets have covered different stages of the case. <br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: LTO, \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lto.de\/recht\/nachrichten\/n\/anklage-spanische-staatsanwaltschaft-kegelbrueder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brand am Ballermann: Deutsche Kegelbr\u00fcder angeklagt<\/a>\u00bb.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: T-Online, \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-online.de\/nachrichten\/panorama\/mallorca\/id_101107178\/mallorca-kegelbrueder-sollen-jahrelang-in-haft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bier als &#8216;Brandbeschleuniger&#8217;: Mallorca-Kegelbr\u00fcder sollen jahrelang ins Gef\u00e4ngnis<\/a>\u00bb.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Stern \u2014 \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/panorama\/weltgeschehen\/kegelbrueder-kommen-alle-frei---ballermann-brand-wird-weiter-untersucht--32546944.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kegelbr\u00fcder kommen alle frei \u2013 Ballermann-Brand wird weiter untersucht<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-5006","casos-de-exito","type-casos-de-exito","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casos-de-exito\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casos-de-exito"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/casos-de-exito"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casos-de-exito\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casos-de-exito\/5006\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbancho.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}