French owners of Swiss bar under scrutiny after New Year blazeListen to this articleFlowers and candles in tribute to the victims are displayed at a makeshift memorialGENEVA - An investigation into a fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana which killed 40 and left 119 injured has cast a spotlight on the French owners who are suspected of "negligence". According to local newspapers, Jacques Moretti is from Ghisonaccia in Upper Corsica and his wife Jessica is from the Cote d’Azur. Before Switzerland, Jacques Moretti ran a bar in the port of Bonifacio, a popular Corsican seaside town in Corsica. Jean-Charles Orsucci, mayor of Bonifacio since 2008, confirmed to AFP that Jacques Moretti had a business on the port in the late 2000s. He’s a hard worker, he’s a friend of the resort," Charles-Andre Bagnoud, a notary in Crans-Montana, told AFP.

Source: Bangkok Post January 04, 2026 13:00 UTC