I’m not sure they’re suppressing it. Everyone - fire, police, media - seems to being really careful about trying to stick to a common, verifiable version of reality.
There are plausible estimates of how many people lived there (120 apartments, with ~4 per apartment = 4-600), and totals for people in hospital (~70 was the last number I saw(WTLNIS)) and in emergency accommodation (~300 WTLNIS), plus known dead (17 WTLNIS).
I assume is the number of fatalities is what the police and fire are being especially careful about releasing, in order to avoid double or triple counting. But that care necessarily slows things down, which can superficially appear to be ‘suppression of information’ … and I guess in a way it is, but for good reason.
Noting that the WTLNIS numbers are from different times, the people so far accounted for is around 400. My guess is that the final total of fatalities will be around 100. Which is horrific and appalling for a reasonably modern building in the heart of a G7 capital.
Regulations save lives.
