After a month, a young man injured in a bar fire in Switzerland dies on New Year’s Eve; victims reach 41

Memorial was set up in front of the Le Constellation bar a month after the tragedy that struck New Year’s party in Crans-Montana Denis Balibouse/Reuters An 18-year-old young man injured in the fire in a bar on New Year’s Eve in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana died on Saturday (31), Swiss authorities reported on Sunday (1st). The total number of victims of the tragedy reached 41, in one of the worst episodes in Switzerland’s modern history. The Swiss man was admitted to a hospital in Zurich, the Valais Public Prosecutor’s Office added in a statement. The young man lived near the city of Lausanne, in the west of the country, two sources close to the case told Reuters. Most of the victims of the fire at Le Constellation bar were teenagers. Some of the 116 injured people remain hospitalized, with serious burns. Tragedy in Switzerland is very reminiscent of the Kiss nightclub fire, in Rio Grande do Sul On Saturday, hundreds of people marched alongside grieving parents through the city of Lutry, near Lausanne, carrying a large banner with the demand for “truth and justice”. “Today, we are just asking for justice and truth; after this, we will mourn,” said Laetitia Brodard-Sitre, who also lost her 17-year-old son Arthur in the fire. The fire tested relations with neighboring Italy, which lost citizens in the tragedy and protested against the bar owner’s release on bail. Swiss authorities said early last week that they would grant the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office access to evidence gathered during the investigation.

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