US EditionCourt Orders Three-Month Detention for Bar Co-Owner After Resort Fire
Jacques Moretti faces charges including manslaughter and is held due to flight risk after a sparkler-lit fire killed 40 and injured 116 at his Crans-Montana bar.
- 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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She is the focus of the investigation after the death of 40 people. Bar operator Jessica Moretti (40) wanted to become an actress.
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After the tragedy on New Year's Eve in Crans-Montana, the wife of the bar owner had to give her passport.
Second inferno bar owner held in Switzerland
The French co-owner of a Swiss bar which went up in flames during New Year celebrations has been forbidden from leaving the country, the cantonal authorities said on Tuesday. The court in the southwestern Wallis canton said it had imposed the travel ban on Jessica Moretti, who along with her husband Jacques owned Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, as an alternative to pre-trial detention "due to the risk of flight". It come…
The authorities are investigating after the deadly New Year's Eve and are now also taking action against the wife of the bar boss in Switzerland: she has to stay in the country and report to the police every day. A bail is also due.
After the fire in Crans-Montana, the bar operator is in pre-trial detention. The court also imposes conditions on his wife: she is not allowed to leave Switzerland and is supposed to report to the police every day.
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