Swiss bar where New Year's tragedy occurred was not subject to "periodic inspections between 2020 and 2025"
The president of the Crans-Montana council, Nicolas Féraud, revealed on Tuesday that the Les Constellation bar, where a fire killed 40 people and injured 119 on New Year's Eve, had not been subject to periodic inspections for five years. Féraud also listed some measures the local authority will take following the tragedy.
Tragedy in Switzerland — authorities' priority is to identify the victims
Swiss authorities announced that 119 people were injured in the bar fire at the tourist resort. For now they are not disclosing the nationalities of the 40 recorded dead, but say that Portugal was one of the countries with which they have begun formal protocols to identify the deceased.
