Overview
- Investigators documented a large store of pyrotechnics in the bar’s cellar, including illegal Lupo P1 ground fireworks and about 100 unused fountain devices, according to a confidential report cited by media.
- Interrogation leaks indicate the operators admitted using spark-emitting ‘Sparkler’ effects with champagne service, while new video shows a helmeted waitress on someone’s shoulders moments before flames.
- The operators reportedly pinned responsibility on the waitress, but her family says she followed employer instructions and rejects claims of a personal relationship.
- Survivor and police accounts describe a locked service door, a single narrow staircase and crushing bottlenecks, with some patrons crawling over others and breaking windows to escape.
- The Valais government approved 10,000-Swiss-franc payments for each bereaved family and hospitalized survivor, as many remain under medical care and the criminal investigation continues, with the owner detained and travel limits on his wife.