The prosecutor of Sion Beatrice Pilloud has ordered a restrictive precautionary measure against Jacques Moretti, the owner of the Constellation, the place where the New Year’s Eve massacre occurred in Crans Montana. At the end of today’s interrogation, the man left the courthouse on a cantonal police mobile phone. His wife Jessica Moretti instead left the prosecutor’s office accompanied by her lawyers.
The Moretti couple were interrogated for six and a half hours in the Sion prosecutor’s office. They remained in the judicial offices from 8 am until after 2 pm, even during the minute of silence observed throughout Switzerland, at the beginning of the ceremony commemorating the victims in Martigny and accompanied by the ringing of the bells of all the churches.
Accompanied by lawyers Yaël Hayat, Nicola Meier and Patrick Michod, the two entrepreneurs were heard individually by prosecutor Pilloud. The French couple, who had already been heard as witnesses, are now under investigation for murder, injuries and negligent fire.
The lawyers representing some victims, Sebastien Fanti and Romain Jordan, who was the first to leave the Palace of Justice without commenting on the outcome of the interrogation, were also able to attend the interrogations. At the end, the suspects remained still in the prosecutor’s offices.
The Bologna Prosecutor’s Office, delegated by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office for the autopsy, gave the order to have the body of Giovanni Tamburi exhumed, one of the very young victims of the fire, whose funeral was celebrated on Wednesday. The case is currently against unknown persons.
To proceed with the medical-legal examination, the Prosecutor’s Office led by Paolo Guido also sent notices to the victim’s family members, who, however, according to what we understand, at the moment do not intend to employ a lawyer or initiate legal initiatives, such as filing a complaint.
The objective of the investigation is to clarify the causes of the young man’s death, i.e. whether it was due to burns, or smoke fumes (as it would seem) or something else. In Switzerland no forensic medical examination appears to have been carried out. If the managers of the ‘Le Constellation’ venue were to be investigated, it will be necessary to understand how to proceed, involving them for example with notices of guarantee to give them the opportunity to participate and the time could be extended. The prosecutor in charge of the case is Roberto Ceroni.
Autopsies will be carried out next week on the bodies of the two sixteen-year-olds from Milan, Chiara Costanzo and Achille Barosi. The Milan Prosecutor’s Office, delegated by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office which has opened an investigation for multiple manslaughter, negligent injury and fire, will set the date in the next few hours (but not before next week) to carry out the autopsy tests on the two victims and will then transmit the results to the capital’s investigators, holders of the file. The prosecutor Marcello Viola is dealing with the delegation with prosecutor Carlo Scalas.
Yesterday Scalas ordered the ‘blocking of the bodies’ precisely to carry out the autopsy investigations delegated by the Capital Prosecutor’s Office and which will be entrusted to a medical examiner. For now, from what has been known, no other activities have been delegated to the Milanese investigators as part of the Roman investigation.
Autopsies on the victims had not been performed in Switzerland. A similar delegation was also given by the Roman prosecutors to the Prosecutor’s Offices of Bologna and Genoa for two other Italian victims. The fifth boy who died in the fire, however, was Roman, while the sixth victim was a resident of Lugano.
The autopsy on Emanuele Galeppini, the sixteen-year-old golf champion who died in the Crans-Montagna massacre, will also be carried out shortly. The Genoa Prosecutor’s Office, delegated by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office, will set the date in the next few hours to carry out the autopsy tests and will then transmit the results to the Roman colleagues in charge of the file.
Prosecutor Silvia Saracino is contacting Forensic Medicine to evaluate the day. The investigation serves to clarify the causes of the young man’s death, i.e. whether it was due to burns, or smoke fumes (as it would seem) or something else. At first the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office had thought of enrolling the spouses Jacques Noretti and Jessica Maric, owners of Le Constellation, to allow them to appoint their own consultant but the Roman magistrates decided that the notice will only be given to the boy’s family members.
The father of an injured man: ‘We are looking for a lawyer in Switzerland who will represent everyone’
The families of the Italian children who died or were injured in the Crans-Montana massacre are coordinating to have a single lawyer who can represent them to obtain truth and justice for their children. The idea is to find a lawyer in Switzerland, “since the main trial will be held there – Umberto Marcucci, the father of Manfredi, the sixteen-year-old hospitalized at the Niguarda in Milan after the injuries sustained on New Year’s Eve, explained to ANSA -, we are coordinating with the other parents and are looking for a lawyer in Switzerland”.
The idea is currently still “in its embryonic state”, specified Umberto Marcucci, however “there is this hope to identify a lawyer who can represent us all because this is not a race to see who gets there first and who does best but there is a single desire that unites us and therefore we want to unite to have a single point of reference”.
There are several parents who are asking for justice and for everything to be done to bring out the truth. The father of Chiara Costanzo, the sixteen-year-old from Milan who died in Crans-Montana, has asked for the State to become a civil party for what happened at Le Constellation.
Crans-Montana: Niguarda, ‘bulletins only for significant information’
There will be no more Niguarda medical bulletins on the conditions of those injured in the Crans-Montana fire unless there is “significant information of public interest to share”. They explained this by Niguarda, adding that they also believe “it is necessary to suspend the interviews with hospital professionals” which had been provided in a first phase to guarantee the right to information while “it is now necessary for the experts involved to return to dedicating all their energies to the care of patients and their families”.
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