{"id":355138,"date":"2026-01-06T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:31:08","slug":"swiss-ski-bar-not-inspected-for-five-years-before-deadly-fire-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355138\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss ski bar not inspected for five years before deadly fire, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the fire occurred on New Year&#8217;s Day, the bar seemed to have many more people in it than legally permitted, which Feraud said was the responsibility of the managers of Le Constellation to regulate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swiss prosecutors have placed the two bar managers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjdjl303zxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under criminal investigation<\/a>, which local media have named as French couple, Jacques and Jessica Moretti. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are both suspected of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence, the prosecutors&#8217; office in Valais said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Feraud said the use of sound-proofing material on the ceiling of the bar and allowing sparklers in the venue was extremely negligent. But he also suggested the local authorities hadn&#8217;t viewed the materials used as risky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Questioned on why authorities had not acted on pictures of sparklers close to the bar&#8217;s ceiling that were widely available on social media and used as promotion for Le Constellation before the fire, Feraud said it was likely no-one in the council saw the images. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the fire occurred on New Year&#8217;s Day, the bar seemed to have many more people in it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-355138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}