Overview
- Mayor Nicolas Féraud was placed under investigation on March 5 for negligent homicide, injury and fire-related offenses, has refused to resign, recused himself from handling case matters and is due to be questioned on April 13.
- Prosecutors added four municipal figures — Kévin Barras, Pierre Albéric Clivaz, Rudy Tissières and Baptiste Cotter — to the case, alongside previously named security chiefs Christophe Balet and Ken Jacquemoud, all on the same charges as club owners Jacques and Jessica Moretti.
- A Swiss federal police report flags opaque transactions tied to the Morettis, raising possible money‑laundering concerns and pointing to likely insurance fraud linked to earlier fires at Le Vieux Chalet in 2023 and a prior Constellation incident in 2024.
- A French court in Grasse rejected Switzerland’s request to freeze Moretti-linked assets in Cannes and Corsica, while Italian prosecutors will review the Swiss dossier in Sion between March 23 and 27 as a proposed joint team remains unresolved.
- Investigators are probing new material-sourcing evidence after Jacques Moretti produced an invoice showing the club’s acoustic foam was bought from a German supplier, contradicting an earlier account, with Swiss authorities seeking assistance from Germany to verify specifications.