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Grieving parents protest at Swiss handling of autopsies for bar fire victims
Families criticize Swiss prosecutors for not ordering autopsies for all 41 victims of the Crans-Montana fire, raising demands for exhumations and wider probe scrutiny.
- As grieving parents Vinciane Stucky and Christian Pidoux prepared to bury their son Trystan, they waited for prosecutors to act on an autopsy request, then proceeded after hearing nothing.
- Autopsy rules matter: Swiss forensic institute URMF says autopsies follow prosecutors' requests, Italy's prosecutor's office did post-mortems on six nationals, and Valais prosecutors expanded their probe with evidence seizures.
- During a vigil, medics removed a body, forcing a burial cancellation, and lawyer Romain Jordan said some families may seek exhumations, calling it "extremely disturbing and shocking".
- Garen Ucari requested magistrates step aside, while those under investigation face hearings on February 11 and 12, 2026.
- Wallis police said, "Firefighters were able to quickly bring the fire under control," after a memorial near Le Constellation bar caught alight on Sunday before 6am, while forensic teams were at the scene.
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Shortly after the devastating fire in Crans-Montana, it was revealed that the bar had not undergone fire safety inspections for years. According to the investigation, this was due to an IT failure. By Patricia Verne.
·Hamburg, Germany
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A memorial erected in front of the Le Constellation bar in Switzerland to the 41 victims of the New Year's Eve fire has caught fire, local police said. Authorities were notified of the fire just before 6 a.m. and responded to the scene along with police and firefighters from Crans-Montana. The fire was quickly extinguished, with no injuries reported, but some parts of the memorial were damaged. Authorities have ruled out outside intervention, wi…
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