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Owner doesn’t deserve all blame for Elliot Lake mall tragedy, some residents say

A file photo of the Elliot Lake, Ont. mall collapse. Jeremy Cohn / Global News

ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. – Some residents of Elliot Lake, Ont., are not laying all the blame for their mall’s deadly collapse last summer on the owner.

Elaine Miller says it’s a “touchy situation” because the tragedy was 30 years in the making.

She says even town residents bear some blame because they always said the mall would come down some day, yet continued to go there.

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But after owner Bob Nazarian’s admission that he had money to fix the roof but chose to spend it elsewhere, others are angry at him.

Some, such as John Pomerleau, say he should be charged criminally.

Nazarian is spending a fourth day on the witness stand at the inquiry into the mall collapse explaining what he did do to try to fix the roof.

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