US EditionCourt Orders Three-Month Detention for Bar Co-Owner After Resort Fire
Jacques Moretti faces charges including manslaughter and arson after a fire killed 40 and injured 116 at Le Constellation bar, with safety inspections overdue since 2019.
- On January 1, a blaze in the basement of Le Constellation bar in Switzerland killed around 40 people, including 20 children, as revellers marked the new year at around 1.30am.
- Investigators say sparklers attached to champagne bottles ignited the basement ceiling and flames spread rapidly while a service door usually open was found closed and latched.
- Jacques Moretti opened a locked door to find a pile of unconscious bodies and helped pull victims outside into recovery positions, including waitress Cyane Panine, 24, whom they tried to revive for over an hour.
- Many victims were helicoptered to hospitals with specialist burns units while Jacques Moretti and owners said they were devastated and felt responsible for failing to protect all victims.
- Owners and relatives said they cannot imagine how to cope after the deaths, describing the aftermath as devastating and recalling how Jacques and Jessica Moretti said, `I raised a child as if she were my own.
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A Swiss judge ordered this Monday to put one of the...
Custody extended for owner of Swiss ski bar after deadly fire
A judge in Switzerland has ordered that one of the two co-owners of the ski resort bar where 40 people died in a fire on New Year’s Eve be kept in detention for 90 days.Swiss prosecutors have argued that Jacques Moretti, a French national, is a potential flight risk. He and his wife Jessica, who is also French, are suspected of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence.The blaze at Le Constellation bar in Cran…
According to the first elements of the investigation, the drama was caused by sparkling candles coming into contact with an acoustic foam placed on the ceiling of the establishment's basement. Questions were asked...
A burning ceiling, a "locked" emergency exit, unaccompanied miners: the first hearings of survivors, a firefighter and owners, Jacques and Jessica Moretti, provide an explanation of the causes of the New Year's night disaster.
VIDEO - After the fire of the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, which cost the lives of 40 people, a tribute was paid Friday, January 9 in Switzerland to the victims. The manager of the bar, Jacques Moretti, was detained the same day, while his wife was left free.
On Monday, a Swiss judge ordered Jacques Moretti, one of the two co-owners of the ski resort bar in which 40 people died as a result of a fire registered on New Year's Eve, a case that the Swiss authorities are still investigating.Swiss Justice has stated in a statement that the man will be imprisoned for at least that 90-day period, a decision that can be "revised" in case other precautionary measures are imposed, such as the payment of a depos…
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