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All around the imposing buildings, the military set up barricades and black tarpaulins, while inside, civil protection men prepared the chairs to welcome no fewer than 1,000 guests. In the courtyard, it’s a ball of delivery vans and dark cars with diplomatic plates. Police officers are in the middle of a briefing, while technicians pull cables from television OB vans. The Martigny Expo complex is an anthill on this Thursday. Every minute counts between now and Friday 1:45 p.m., when the ceremony begins in tribute to the victims of the Crans-Montana fire. An extraordinary event for Valais, which finds itself “organizing a WEF in four days”, according to the words of one of the officials.