12 h. ago Swiss bar owners ‘blame girl in the helmet’ for starting horror NYE fire that killed 40, leaked police interview reveals

THE Swiss bar owners facing prison over a New Year’s Eve inferno that killed 40 people have blamed a young waitress for starting the blaze and blocking an escape route, a leaked police interview reveals. Jacques Moretti, 49, and his wife Jessica Moretti, 40, are under judicial supervision after the deadly fire at Le Constellation...

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13 h. ago Swiss inferno bar owners place blame on tragic 'waitress in the helmet' and say fire was result of her 'show' climbing on to colleague's shoulders with lit sparklers

The Swiss bar owners facing prison following the New Year fire in which 40 people died have firmly blamed their young staff for causing it and blocking an escape exit, it emerged today.

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55 h. ago Swiss president responds to Italy’s fury over bar manager’s release

The Italian Prime Minister called his release ‘an affront to the memory of the victims of the New Year's Eve tragedy and an insult to their families’

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4 d. ago Swiss court orders release on bail of bar owner in probe of fatal New Year's fire

A court has ordered the release on bail of one of the owners of the Swiss bar where a fire broke out during a New Year’s celebration, killing 40 people and injuring more than 100

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7 d. ago Backlash over plans to build luxury restaurant and bar at Sandbanks yacht club as residents accuse owner of trying to bring 'nightclub atmosphere' to millionaires' playground

Sandbanks Yacht Company has applied for a new alcohol licence that will include a storage area so it can be turned into a members' lounge.

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8 d. ago CCTV from inside Swiss inferno nightclub 'mysteriously cuts off three minutes before fire broke out' as owners face negligent homicide prosecution

This comes as the owner of Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Jaques Moretti, is under investigation for negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm.

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2 w. ago Swiss bar owner found 'stepdaughter' dying in pile of bodies after fatal fire

Jacques and Jessica Moretti - owners of Le Constellation bar where 40 people died in a New Year's blaze - have given their most detailed account of the tragedy

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2 w. ago 'We had a deal within three days, the aim is to change the bar's reputation and turn things around'

The city centre bar closed after violent street brawl but has reopened with new owners

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2 w. ago BREAKING: Swiss bar owner jailed during investigation into New Year fire that left 40 dead

Swiss bar owner held as authorities investigate New Year fire at Crans-Montana venue that killed multiple people and left others injured

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2 w. ago Swiss bar owners where 40 people died to be quizzed on private wealth

A married couple face questions about how they amassed their fortune before 40 people perished in their bar in Switzerland as questions mount over how they could afford to pay outright for their real estate empire in the upmarket ski resort.

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2 w. ago Gold hits record high and dollar weakens on Fed independence worries

Wall Street futures also fall after US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into chair Jay Powell

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2 w. ago Nearly all of Swiss fire victims died trapped on basement stairwell narrowed by pimp bar owner – as he appears in court

THE majority of the victims killed in the New Year fire at a Swiss bar burned to death after becoming trapped on a narrow staircase that had been reduced in size by the owners. Horrific new details of the basement inferno were released as one of the bar owners - 49-year-old Jacques Moretti - prepared...

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2 w. ago Dollar weakens after US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsJustice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal ReserveGold has hit a new high around $4.600 an ounce; it’s up over 1.5% today, pushed up by the weaker dollar.The US dollar has dropped on the foreign exchange markets since news of the investigation into Powell hit the wires.Powell highlighted that the key issue is whether the Fed can continue setting interest rates based on economic data and evidence, or whether monetary policy will be directed by political pressure.I’m afraid we may be moving toward the second scenario. If the Fed becomes a political tool, with its chair replaced by a government puppet, that could further weaken appetite for the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Fed’s Powell

Central bank chair says grand jury subpoenas are retaliation for refusal to bow to demand to cut interest rates

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2 w. ago Owner of Swiss bar where 40 died said he found waitress behind locked door in pile of bodies

One of the owners said the fire was ‘the tragedy of my life’

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2 w. ago Owners of the Swiss bar in which 40 people burned to death in a New Year's fire say waitress they viewed as 'a stepdaughter' suffocated 'in a pile of bodies behind a locked door'

Providing their most detailed account of the disaster to date, Jacques and Jessica Moretti said Cyane Panine's last minutes alive encapsulated the full horror of the evening.

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2 w. ago Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both fame and scorn, has died at age 90

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2 w. ago Erich von Däniken, author who spawned alien archaeology theory, dies at 90

The Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame

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2 w. ago Swiss bar fire owners found 'stepdaughter' dying 'in a pile of bodies' in final moments alive

Jacques and Jessica Moretti have given their most details account of the fire which killed 40 people in the Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of January 1

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2 w. ago Swiss inferno bar owner says he forced open a locked door after fire and found a pile of bodies

Jacques Moretti, the French co-owner of the Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, was taken into custody on Friday.

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