Collective

In Bucharest, Romania, a fire breaks out in October 2015 and engulfs a club called Colectiv, immediately killing 27 people and injuring 180. Due to the outrage over the lack of fire exits and proper healthy and safety inspections, people took to the streets to protest the corruption and lack of accountability. Over the following few months, 37 more victims died, largely due to the lack of proper healthcare and negligible medical care at the public hospitals. These events led to even greater outrage, and ensuing mass protests resulted in the Social Democratic Party, the ruling party at the time, to resign from government.