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- 2d ago
Crans-Montana bar fire: mother of two survivors recounts the New Year's night
A mother of two girls who survived the Constellation bar fire in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, has described the night, her older daughter's burns and her younger daughter's trauma. In Rome, a victim's father spoke at a school event.
- 3d ago
Crans-Montana plans wooden palisade around Constellation bar, scene of New Year's Eve tragedy
The municipality of Crans-Montana wants to build a wooden palisade around the Constellation discobar, where 41 people died and 115 were injured in a New Year's Eve tragedy.
- Oct 7
Swiss ski championships head Claude-Alain Schmidhalter resigns following fraud indictment
Claude-Alain Schmidhalter stepped down as president of the Crans-Montana 2027 Alpine skiing world championships and vice president of Swiss-Ski after being indicted for fraud in his private engineering business.
- Oct 6
Mikaela Shiffrin scales back slalom events to target giant slalom and super-G
The three-time Olympic champion will skip the opening slalom events in Levi and Gurgl, making her season slalom debut in Killington in late November.
- Oct 6
Zurich Insurance opposes accident indemnity claim by Crans-Montana bar owner
Zurich Insurance has prepared legal challenges against an accident indemnity claim filed by Jessica Moretti following the fatal Crans-Montana bar fire that killed 41 people.
- Sep 6
Beloved Foundation receives 70 aid requests for Crans-Montana fire victims and seeks more funds
The Beloved Foundation has received around 70 assistance requests and paid out tens of thousands of francs to victims of the Crans-Montana bar fire, while seeking additional funding beyond its 24 million franc endowment.
- Aug 23
Crans-Montana bar owner Jacques Moretti detained over alleged domestic violence
Jacques Moretti, co-owner of the Swiss bar Le Constellation where 41 people died in January, is in pre-trial custody in Valais after allegedly assaulting his wife Jessica.
- Aug 18
Switzerland charges former safety councillor as Crans-Montana fire defendants reach 16
Valais prosecutors charged former municipal safety delegate Thibault Beytrison over missing inspections at Le Constellation bar, where a New Year blaze killed 41 people and injured 115.
- Jul 13
Crans-Montana tourism body expects stable summer bookings six months after deadly New Year’s bar fire
Six months after a fire at the Le Constellation bar killed 41 people and injured 115, Crans-Montana Tourisme & Congrès says summer and autumn bookings remain stable, though geopolitical tensions and a strong franc weigh on the market.
- Jul 5
Son of Crans-Montana club owners removed from elite private school after New Year's Eve fire that killed 41
The four-year-old son of the couple who ran the Le Constellation club, where a fire killed 41 on New Year's Eve, has been removed from Le Régent International School in Crans-Montana and now attends a public school in nearby Lens.
- Jun 27
Valais president says Le Constellation bar will 'never reopen as a bar' after New Year fire that killed 41; youth space and memorial planned
Six months after a fire killed 41 young people at the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Valais president Christophe Darbellay said the venue will become a youth-dedicated space, with a memorial and a commemoration ceremony planned for 1 January 2027.
- Jun 16
Six months after fire killed 41, Crans-Montana president Nicolas Féraud apologises at first assembly
Nearly six months after the New Year's Eve fire at Le Constellation bar killed 41 and injured over 100, Crans-Montana president Nicolas Féraud addressed 378 citizens in a tense assembly and presented official apologies for the tragedy.
- Jun 11
Swiss prosecutors asked to upgrade charges to murder after Crans-Montana bar owners disclosed fire risk in 2019 WhatsApp messages
Attorneys for families of the 41 victims of the January 1 bar fire are pushing for more severe charges after a 2019 WhatsApp exchange surfaced, showing the owners had been explicitly warned about the risk of sparklers igniting acoustic foam.
- Jun 5
Crans-Montana fire: bar owner Jessica Moretti charged with forgery over acoustic foam invoice
Jessica Moretti, co-owner of the Le Constellation bar where 41 people died in a New Year's Eve fire, was charged with forgery on Friday after allegedly submitting a falsified invoice for the acoustic foam that ignited.
