Overview
- Lawyers in the case have been allowed to review reconstructed surveillance footage from the night of the fire, according to media reports.
- Accounts based on the video say owner Jessica Moretti placed and lit sparklers on champagne bottles together with five employees.
- Those reports also describe her moving toward a stairway during the blaze, with allegations she pushed past people on the floor and stepped on patrons.
- Prosecutors in Valais are investigating Jessica and her husband, Jacques Moretti, for negligent homicide, negligent bodily injury, and negligent arson, with scrutiny also on reports that Jacques installed non‑compliant ceiling foam in 2015.
- Investigators say the blaze began when bottle sparklers ignited flammable acoustic foam on the ceiling, triggering a rapid flashover that left 41 people dead and 115 injured.