36 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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54 h. ago Senior Catholic church leader arrested on suspicion of raping woman leaving parishioners ‘shocked’

A HIGH-ranking Roman Catholic Church leader has been arrested on suspicion of rape. He was detained by police and questioned before being released on bail while inquiries continued, plunging the church into fresh scandal. The man, whom we are not identifying for legal reasons, was arrested last year but the details have only just come...

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3 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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4 d. ago London man, 24, jailed after threatening to rape teenage girl online

Shabaz Khokar, from Greenwich, was released on bail and continued to send threatening messages to the victim

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6 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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7 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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8 d. ago Love Island star arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and coercive behaviour

A Love Island star in his 20s was arrested at a London airport on suspicion of sexual assault, stalking, criminal damage and assault but has since been released on bail

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1 week ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kiefer Sutherland arrested and bailed after 'assaulting taxi driver' – everything we know

Actor and musician Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested in Los Angeles after allegedly assaulting a ride-hail driver, but he was subsequently released on bail and will appear in court next month

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1 week 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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1 week ago WATCH: Full video of driver hitting 122mph as 'police probe clip in fatal Bolton crash investigation'

The footage appeared to show the driver weaving in and out of traffic on a busy road

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2 w. ago Swiss court orders 3 months of pretrial detention for bar manager over fatal fire

A Swiss court has ordered three months of pretrial detention for a manager of a bar that burst into flames during a New Year’s Eve celebration

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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 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 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 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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2 w. ago Swiss bar owner 'desperately tried to save waitress before she died in fire'

Jacques Moretti's statements to investigators have been reported in Switzerland, ten days on from the disaster that killed 20 children and left a further 116 injured

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2 w. ago 'Shady life' of Swiss bar owner unmasked from 'pimping to prostitutes and kidnap'

The owner of the Swiss bar where a fire claimed the lives of around 40 people has been arrested, and is reported to have a troubling criminal past, including serving time for pimping

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2 w. ago Swiss bar fire owner's dad admits son 'bears responsibility' for 40 dead after arrest

Jean Moretti confirmed his son Jacques' house is now under police protection after rising public anger over the Swiss ski bar fire tragedy, which also left 116 people injured

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2 w. ago ‘An incomprehensible nightmare’: grief turns to anger over Swiss bar fire as Le Constellation owner arrested

Jacques Moretti arrested on Friday as lawyers representing families of victims say investigators are not moving fast enoughLike many young people across Switzerland, Kenzo Ronnow, a university student in Lausanne, slept in on 1 January after celebrating the new year.But as he scrolled through his phone soon after waking, he saw the lead story of a foreign news website was about Switzerland. Continue reading...

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