US EditionCourt Orders Three-Month Detention for Bar Co-Owner After Resort Fire
Jacques Moretti faces charges including manslaughter and arson by negligence after a New Year’s fire killed 40 and injured 116 at Le Constellation 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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Swiss Bar Destroyed by Deadly New Year Blaze: Co-Owner Detained for Three Months
Monday, January 12th saw the co-owner of a Swiss bar destroyed in a lethal fire placed in preventive detention for three months, according to a source close to the case. Jacques Moretti was taken into custody after he and his wife Jessica, who co-owned Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, were interviewed by prosecutors in Switzerland’s southwestern Wallis canton on Friday. The premises went up in flames during recent New Y…
A court from the Swiss Canton Valais had the month's preventive arrest for a three-month initial period of Jacques Moretti, co-owner with his wife of the Le Constellation bar from the Swiss ski station Crans-Montana, which burned on the night of Nou's Nou, declared to the AFP a source near the file.
Jacques and Jessica Moretti, the owners of a Swiss bar where 40 people died on New Year's Eve, described to investigators the final moments before the fatal fire. Since the club was relatively empty by then, Jessica ordered waitress Cyane Panine to create a better atmosphere - which meant having the girls grab bottles of sparkling champagne and climb onto the shoulders of the bartenders. Hours later, Cyane was dead.
After the fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, a court confirmed the detention of the operator of the bar.
Swiss bar owners where 40 people died to be quizzed on private wealth - The Mirror
A married couple face questions about how they amassed their fortune before 40 people perished in their bar in Switzerland as questions mount over how they could afford to pay outright for their real estate empire in the upmarket ski resort.
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