US EditionCrans-Montana Fire: French Bar Owners Under Criminal Inquiry
Owners face charges including negligent homicide after a New Year's Eve fire at Le Constellation bar killed 40 and injured 119, authorities said.
- On Friday, the public prosecutor's office of the canton of Valais opened a criminal investigation against Jacques Moretti and Jessica Moretti, co-owners of Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana.
- A New Year's Eve blaze at Le Constellation bar, Crans-Montana killed around 40 people and injured 119, with preliminary investigative findings pointing to smouldering candles on champagne bottles as a possible cause.
- Jacques and Jessica Moretti were questioned as witnesses at the start of the inquiry, and no pretrial detention has been imposed, with Beatrice Pilloud stressing the presumption of innocence.
- Prosecutors allege negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and negligently causing a conflagration, the public prosecutor's office of the canton of Valais said in a Saturday press release.
- The Morettis moved to Crans-Montana in 2015 and purchased Le Constellation after running other businesses in Corsica; locals describe them as hard-working and a friend of the resort.
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Frenchman Jacques Moretti, the owner of the burned-out bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where dozens of people died, has had serious run-ins with the law in the past. About twenty years ago, he was convicted of fraud, kidnapping and illegal detention, the Daily Mail website writes.
At least 40 guests died in the fire inferno of the bar Le Constellation. Moretti and his wife are being investigated for negligence.
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