{"id":50113,"date":"2026-04-16T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50113\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:39:16","slug":"four-more-officials-charged-in-swiss-fire-probe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50113\/","title":{"rendered":"Four more officials charged in Swiss fire probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA: Four more current and former officials are now under criminal investigation in the probe into Switzerland’s Crans-Montana fire disaster<\/a>, sources close to the case told AFP on Thursday (Apr 16).<\/p>\n

“The investigation has been extended to include four new individuals, bringing the total number of defendants to 13,” the public prosecutors’ office in southwest Switzerland’s Wallis canton confirmed to AFP.<\/p>\n

The Crans-Montana municipal councillor in charge of security, their 2013-2016 predecessor, the current deputy head of the public safety department, and the 2009-2016 mayor of the neighbouring municipality of Chermignon, will be interviewed between May 11 and Jun 3, sources close to the case told AFP.<\/p>\n

The fire in a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana broke out early on Jan 1 as people celebrated the New Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A total of 41 people were killed in the tragedy at Le Constellation – mostly teenagers – while another 115 were injured.<\/p>\n

Those already under investigation include the bar’s French owners – husband and wife Jacques and Jessica Moretti – who face charges of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence.<\/p>\n

Jacques Moretti is set to be questioned again by public prosecutors on Jun 5.<\/p>\n

“We must commend the progress of the investigation and the sustained pace of the hearings. We are making progress, and for the families, this is invaluable,” Romain Jordan, a lawyer representing several victims’ relatives, told AFP.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows a second wave of hearings in the case, held over the past few weeks in the Wallis capital Sion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA: Four more current and former officials are now under criminal investigation in the probe into Switzerland’s Crans-Montana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3645,41,970,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-50113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-crans-montana","9":"tag-swiss","10":"tag-swiss-fire","11":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116415612003937846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113","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=50113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}