{"id":3425903,"date":"2026-01-02T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=3425903"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:41:49","slug":"owner-of-swiss-bar-where-new-year-fire-killed-40-insists-safety-norms-were-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/ru\/2026\/01\/owner-of-swiss-bar-where-new-year-fire-killed-40-insists-safety-norms-were-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Swiss bar where New Year fire killed 40 insists safety norms were followed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Everything was done according to the regulations,\u2019 Jacques Moretti, a Frenchman who manages the Le Constellation bar, told local media.<\/b>
\nThe owner of the bar in a Swiss ski resort town ravaged by a deadly fire during New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations insisted to Swiss media on Friday that safety norms had been followed.
Jacques Moretti, a Frenchman who manages the Le Constellation bar with his wife Jessica, told the Tribune de Geneve daily that the establishment had faced \u201cthree inspections in 10 years\u201d.
\u201cEverything was done according to the regulations,\u201d he said.
The question of whether safety standards were respected has raged ever since the devastating blaze erupted in the basement of the bar, killing 40 people and injuring 119, according to the toll given by police on Friday.
Le Constellation, located on the ground floor of a residential building, has a capacity of 300 people, plus another 40 people on its terrace, according to the Crans-Montana website.
Several witnesses said the event space in the basement of the establishment, where the fire began, was connected with the ground floor by only a staircase, which some described as \u201cnarrow\u201d.<\/p>\n