Le Constellation is a ‘real institution’ where people watch footballpublished at 08:26 GMT
08:26 GMT
Silvia Costeloe
Reporting from Crans-Montana
The bar where the fire happened is a real institution here. It’s been around for at least 40 years.
It’s a big bar and it’s not posh. But this is quite a posh ski resort, there’s quite a lot of luxury here – it was famous in the 1980s for hosting the World Cup skiing, and that’s coming back.
A lot of the bars are luxurious, but the Constellation was not like that. It’s really big, it’s got an upstairs with TV screens where people go and watch football matches.
Downstairs it just had a big bar where I suppose yesterday people would have been dancing and drinking.
You go there for beers – it’s a kind of young bar. It would’ve been a mixture of young people, Swiss people, people coming up from the valleys to celebrate here in Crans-Montana.
There would have been a mixture of nationalities as well, you would think.