Great Solidarity in Switzerland After the Fall of the Mountain in Blatten

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The community asks to refrain from private donations in kind. One person is still missing

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The buried village has received donations of more than 17 million Swiss francs so far. Currently, the amount of damage is estimated at up to one billion Swiss francs.

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A "new Blatten" in 2030. This is the ambition carried by Matthias Bellwald, the president of the Valais municipality engulfed by ...

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The solidarity with the inhabitants of the buried Valais mountain village Blatten in Switzerland is great. The humanitarian foundation "Glückskette" has already received over 17 million Swiss francs (18.14 million euros) of donations for the village. The Swiss Confederation recently provided 5 million Swiss francs (5.33 million euros) and other organisations also collect for the villagers.

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In the near future, where there is now a rubble cone, leaves are to be rebuilt. The community is offered prominent help for this: by the architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who once pleaded for a retreat from the Lötschental.