13 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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14 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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57 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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3 d. ago Parents of waitress blamed for Swiss bar inferno break silence

Cyane Panine, 24, was the waitress in the crash helmet seen in the widely shared footage

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3 d. ago 'She trusted people and paid the ultimate price': Parents of 'girl in the helmet' waitress cruelly blamed for Swiss inferno speak out

The implication that Cyane Panine - 'the girl in the helmet' - was somehow to blame for the Swiss bar inferno which killed 40 and injured more than 100 is one that is compounding the family's unending grief.

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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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1 week ago Waitress who escaped Swiss bar fire reveals staff had no safety training & says she’s ‘haunted by the faces of the dead’

A SURVIVING employee of the Swiss ski resort bar where a deadly fire killed 40 says she is "haunted by the faces of the dead". French national Louise Leguistin, 25, was one of the only staff members of Le Constellation to escape unharmed after the horrific blaze tore through the downstairs nightspot in the early...

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1 week ago Body is found in hunt for missing girl, 15, two weeks after her mother and hero passer

Grace Keeling, 15, is understood to have fallen into the water at Withernsea, on the East Yorkshire coast, on January 2 after being hit by a wave.

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1 week ago Swiss bar worker ‘who started New Year fire’ had no safety training, lawyer claims

Cyane Panine, 24, who was among 40 victims who lost their life in the blaze, was also alleged to have been unaware of the danger posed by the ceiling that caught alight

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1 week ago 'Distraught' Pope meets Italian relatives of Swiss fire victims and tells them 'God has not abandoned you'

Pope Leo XIV has met the Italian families of the victims of the Swiss bar fire on New Year's Eve, telling them that God has not abandoned them. 

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1 week ago Pope seeks to console families of young Italian victims of New Year's Swiss Alps bar fire

Pope Leo XIV has consoled families of Italian teenagers killed or injured in the Swiss bar fire at a New Year's party

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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 Scotland's nightlife sector is being urged to review champagne sparkler safety after the Swiss inferno which killed 40 revellers

The tragedy, which saw 40 killed, has prompted renewed scrutiny of fire safety in crowded venues amid fears over the potential for a similar tragedy closer to home.

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing star 'absolutely smitten' after sharing engagement announcement

Former Home Secretary Baroness Jacqui Smith is engaged to Professor Graham Timmins, affectionately known as Page Three Boy, her friend Iain Dale has said

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2 w. ago Waitress thought to have started tragic Swiss bar fire confirmed among the 40 dead

Cyane Panine is believed to have accidentally started the fire which ultimately claimed the lives of 40 people during the New Year's Eve disaster — including herself

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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 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 Mother and hero bystander drowned as they tried to rescue teenage girl, 15, swept into sea, inquest hears

Mark Ratcliffe, 67, died while attempting to save Grace Keeling, 15, and Sarah Keeling, 45, at Withernsea Bay Beach off the coast of East Yorkshire on January 2.

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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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