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The Swiss police reported this Sunday that they have already been able to identify 16 more bodies of the people who died in the bar fire on New Year’s Eve in the Crans-Montana ski resort.
With these they already add up 24 deceased identified of this event in which 40 people died. Among the bodies identified are ten Swiss citizens, two Italians, a person with dual Italian-Emirati nationality, as well as a Romanian, a French and a Turkish, according to the police of the canton of Valais. The names have not been released.
Identification tasks are carried out by the Swiss Institute of Forensic Medicine
and the Valais Cantonal Police, who will publish any new information as soon as it is available.
The fire left 119 people injured, most with severe and extensive burns, which complicates the identification of the bodies, a process that is being carried out by a team of 30 specialists.
The fire
Around 1:30 in the morning and on the occasion of the New Year’s Eve celebration, the Le Constellation bar, located at 35 Centrale Street in Crans-Montana, suffered a massive fire that caused the death of 40 people.
The magnitude of the drama was accentuated by a staircase – the only exit from the basement where the party was taking place – in the shape of an hourglass, wide at the ends, but quite narrow in the middle.
The first investigations suggest that the fire was caused when one of the restaurant’s waitresses climbed onto the shoulders of one of her colleagues while she was carrying a bottle with flares in her hands, causing the sparks to reach the ceiling.
After this, the premises were engulfed in flames in a matter of minutes, reaching, due to the configuration of the place, temperatures that may have reached between 500 and 700 degrees.
Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation against the French couple who managed the bar-disco where the fire occurred
As reported this Saturday by the Valais canton policethose responsible are accused of negligent homicide, negligent bodily injury, and negligent arson. The authorities stressed that, as long as there is no conviction, the principle of presumption of innocence is maintained.