Overview
- Police said they would increase protection for Jessica and Jacques Moretti after grieving relatives surrounded and shouted at them outside hearings in Sion.
- The operators remain under formal investigation for negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and negligent arson and were questioned by victims’ lawyers at the Campus Energypolis site.
- Prosecutors are scrutinizing evacuation failures, citing a single narrow stairway and apparently blocked exits shown in forensic photographs, with 41 dead and more than 100 injured.
- Investigators say the blaze likely started when spark‑emitting party fountains ignited acoustic foam on the ceiling of the crowded basement bar.
- A supplier, Robert Borbiro, alleges the owners declined fire‑retardant materials in 2016 for cost reasons, and a newly filed complaint confirmed to Keystone‑SDA names commune president Nicolas Féraud over alleged safety lapses, after the commune acknowledged annual fire checks stopped in 2019.