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Swiss bar that suffered deadly fire didn’t have safety check for 5 years, authorities admit
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Police officers carry a coffin with the body of one of six Italians at the Military Airport in Sion, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Jan. 5, 2026, following a devastating fire in a bar in Crans-Montana during the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Swiss local authorities admit they failed to conduct periodic fire and safety inspections over the past five years at a bar where an inferno killed 40 people and injured 116.
“Periodic inspections were not conducted between 2020 and 2025. We bitterly regret this,” Crans-Montana Mayor Nicolas Feraud tells a press conference in the Alpine ski resort, five days after the disaster at Le Constellation bar.
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