Overview
- Jacques Moretti left custody after a 200,000‑franc bail paid by an anonymous close friend, with the court citing a new assessment of flight risk and verification of the funds’ origin.
- The tribunal imposed alternative measures that include a ban on leaving Switzerland, daily check‑ins with police, and surrender of identity documents, and it declined to order electronic monitoring despite the prosecutor’s request.
- Italy lodged a formal protest by recalling its ambassador to Bern as leaders Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani condemned the release, while Tajani pressed for a faster, more rigorous inquiry.
- Victims’ families and their lawyers decried what they call incomplete interrogations and warned of possible collusion or loss of evidence, with about 130 injured people and relatives registered as civil parties.
- Valais prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said only the venue’s managers are currently indicted but the probe may widen; she rejected appointing an external magistrate as Swiss President Guy Parmelin urged political non‑interference.