Buenos Aires KheyvisNightclub Fire
A structured incident summary of the 20 December 1993 fire at Kheyvis in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, with reported figures, legal-source notes, conflicting accounts and unverified details clearly separated.
Incident Overview
What happened
Date: 20 December 1993.
Location: Discoteca / local bailable Kheyvis / Kheyvis Kheib, Avenida del Libertador Nº 1965, Partido de Vicente López, Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Incident name: Argentina, Buenos Aires Kheyvis nightclub fire / Tragedia de Kheyvis / Incendio del boliche Kheyvis.
A fire broke out during a graduation party linked to Colegio La Salle. Sources report 17 young people died and 24 were injured. Several sources describe a suspected sofa or armchair ignition involving alcohol, but the authorship and exact ignition mechanism were not finally proven.
Source Position
Best-supported points
Fatalities: 17 fatalities are consistently reported by the civil judgment and Argentine news and retrospective sources.
Injuries: 24 injured is the best-supported figure across La Nación, Página/12, Infobae, TN, El Día and Padres de Kheyvis. One commentary source gives 25 seriously injured, so the figure should still be handled with care.
Legal record: Later reporting and the SCBA-hosted civil judgment indicate the original criminal position changed over time, with negligent homicide and injury actions later prescribed and a final suspended sentence for false public-document information.
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Chronology
Incident and aftermath
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Conflicting or unresolved points
The items below should not be treated as settled fact unless stronger primary records are later found.
Most opened sources report 24 injured, but one commentary source reports 25 seriously injured.
La Nación, Página/12, Infobae, TN, El Día and Padres de Kheyvis report 24 injured.
Razón y Revolución / El Aromo reports 25 seriously injured.
Use 24 injured as the best-supported figure, with the 25 figure retained as a conflict.
The sofa/alcohol account appears in several sources, but responsibility was not finally proven.
La Nación reports a victims’ lawyer’s allegation that a 20-year-old instigated it and a minor materially started it.
Padres de Kheyvis says the story is what people say happened, and Página/12 reports that a detained youth was released for lack of evidence.
The ignition story is plausible enough to record but not strong enough to state as proven.
The earlier 2002 sentence was later modified.
Página/12 reported a five-year sentence and ten years’ commercial disqualification.
Later Infobae reporting and the SCBA-hosted judgment state that a three-year suspended sentence for falsification remained and the commercial disqualification was set aside.
The later court-source account should be treated as the final verified legal status found in the supplied material.
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Details still not settled
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Source Material
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