Is the wall load-bearing?

The pellet boiler has been removed and the old firewall between the laundry room and boiler room no longer serves any purpose. The wall is made of brick (to the right of the door section) and concrete cavity blocks to the left of the door. Both brick and concrete cavity blocks are about 10 cm thick. It is not attached to the ceiling or floor (not embedded) and at the two test holes I have made, you can clearly see the casting traces from the ceiling (which must have been cast before the wall was built?).

The other walls (exterior walls), the wall between the laundry room/boiler room and the den/basement hallway, as well as the wall between the den and the hall/bathroom, are about 20-23 cm thick. There is no wall that aligns on the floor above (bedroom).

I also have 3 different versions of the original drawings, which both describe how the wall I now want to remove does not exist at all, how it is an extra wall in the middle with several small rooms, and where there is a doorway between the cold room/boiler room (on the last drawing, however, the fireplace was not included, so I assume the chimney is behind it today)...

Floor plan showing a house layout with rooms labeled, including a pantry, hall, bathroom, and living/bedroom. Walls are marked with their thickness in cm.
Floor plan showing a purple-marked wall between laundry and furnace room, with labeled rooms including bedrooms, bathroom, and hall; dimensions displayed.
Laundry room with open door showing a partially demolished wall and construction debris. Washer and dryer on the left, turquoise mosaic tile floor. Close-up view of a hole in a wall made of concrete blocks, showing rough edges and interior debris; part of a home renovation inspection. Close-up of a deteriorating wall corner with visible erosion and crumbling material near the floor, possibly depicting damage or structural weakness. Close-up of a wall with a plastered surface partially removed, exposing bricks and concrete, inquiring if it's a load-bearing wall for renovation purposes. View attachment 937895 Floor plan of a basement showing rooms labeled such as laundry, boiler room, oil tank, storage, hobby room, and shower. Scale included.

So what do you think? Can I demolish the wall, or do I need to bring in a structural engineer to be sure?
 
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