Overview
- The New Year’s Eve blaze at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana killed 40 people and injured 116.
- Jacques Moretti remains in pre-trial detention after a three-month order from the Valais measures court citing risk of flight.
- Prosecutors requested CHF 200,000 in bail for each spouse that could allow release under substitution measures.
- Conditions sought include seizure of identity papers, police check-ins every three days and an electronic monitoring bracelet; Jessica Moretti’s documents have already been seized.
- The investigation for alleged negligent homicide and related offenses is active, as reporting revisits Jacques Moretti’s earlier convictions and a COVID-aid probe that ended in a 2021 non-lieu.