{"id":28450,"date":"2026-03-09T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28450\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:16:04","slug":"swiss-fire-tragedy-expanding-investigations-shake-crans-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28450\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Fire Tragedy: Expanding Investigations Shake Crans-Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Swiss prosecutors have intensified their probe into a tragic ski bar fire that took 41 lives, mainly teenagers. Crans-Montana&#8217;s mayor, Nicolas Feraud, and four current and former officials have been added to the suspect list, a document obtained by Reuters reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The January 1st fire at the &#8216;Le Constellation&#8217; bar marked one of Switzerland&#8217;s modern disasters, affecting relations with Italy, which lost six citizens. Many still suffer from severe burns, impacting the lucrative tourism scene in Crans-Montana, a hotspot for affluent tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The bar&#8217;s owners, Jacques and Jessica Moretti, have pledged cooperation. Nine people now face charges, which include negligent homicide\u2014potentially leading to 4-1\/2 years of imprisonment per person if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Swiss prosecutors have intensified their probe into a tragic ski bar fire that took 41 lives, mainly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17207,17204,17208,17206,17205,17151,17209,41,970,17,6716,7098],"class_list":{"0":"post-28450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bar-owners-investigation","9":"tag-crans-montana-investigation","10":"tag-fire-tragedy","11":"tag-le-constellation-fire","12":"tag-negligent-homicide","13":"tag-nicolas-feraud","14":"tag-prosecutors-probe","15":"tag-swiss","16":"tag-swiss-fire","17":"tag-switzerland","18":"tag-switzerland-tourism","19":"tag-valais-canton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116200589395108225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}