Overview
- Authorities confirmed six Italian victims after the formal identification of all 40 people who died in the New Year’s Eve blaze at Le Constellation.
- An Italian Air Force C-130 is scheduled to carry the Italian victims’ remains from Sion to Milan Linate, then on to Rome Ciampino, with onward transfers to Milan, Bologna and Genoa.
- Italo‑Swiss victim Sofia Prosperi will be buried in Switzerland rather than repatriated on the state flight.
- Eleven injured patients have been transferred to Milan’s Niguarda Hospital, seven in particularly serious condition, while three others remain in Swiss hospitals under evaluation for transport.
- Switzerland set a national day of mourning for January 9, and Italian authorities offered state-funded funerals as Italy’s ambassador called the event an avoidable tragedy.