US EditionProsecutors expand Swiss ski bar fire probe to include mayor, document shows
Nine people, including the mayor and municipal officials, are investigated for involuntary manslaughter and negligence after 41 died in a fire at Crans-Montana’s Le Constellation bar.
- On March 9, Wallis canton public prosecutor's office widened the probe, placing five local officials under investigation over the Jan 1 Crans-Montana bar fire.
- Prosecutors say champagne bottles with sparklers raised too close to a basement ceiling ignited sound‑insulation foam, after the municipality revealed no safety check had been carried out since 2019.
- Victims and survivors include mostly teenagers, with 115 people injured and many still in hospital, while Jacques and Jessica Moretti, bar owners, face manslaughter and arson negligence charges.
- Between April 7 and 15, the public prosecutor's office will question implicated municipal officials and Mr Jacques Moretti, as nine people are now under criminal investigation.
- Mr Nicolas Feraud, mayor of Crans‑Montana, is among those under suspicion, along with a former municipal councillor in charge of security, a former fire safety officer and his deputy, and the current head of public safety.
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The Wallis Public Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal investigation against Nicolas Féraud on Monday.
The investigation into the Crans-Montana fire, which resulted in 41 deaths and 115 injuries on New Year's Eve, was extended to nine people, including the president of the commune Nicolas Féraud.
After the fire disaster of Crans-Montana, a dealer from Germany is being checked. It's about the foam that was on fire.
Swiss prosecutors said on Monday they were investigating five current and former municipal officials, including Mayor Nicolas Feraud, as part of the investigation into a New Year's Eve bar fire in the ski resort of Crans Montana that killed 41 people, expanding the investigation to include a total of nine people.
For four years there were no fire control controls in the Bar Le Constellation. Now the mayor of Crans-Montana has to be responsible.
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