Forty people, including twenty minors, lost their lives in the Constellation fire in Crans-Montana. In addition to the official ceremony in Martigny this Friday, tributes were also held in Crans-Montana, Lutry and Geneva to honor these young victims and support their loved ones.
Pieces of boat sail to carry messages, hung around the stadium. Wednesday evening, FC Lutry paid tribute to the victims of the Crans-Montana tragedy, deeply mourning the club and the entire region.
“We must not think only of us. There are many people who are suffering, but it is true that Lutry and FC Lutry, through a very unfortunate combination of circumstances, find themselves very affected by this horrible tragedy”, confided Stéphane Bise, president of FC Lutry, to the RTS microphone.
Eight of the victims had ties to the club: players, coaches, brothers or sisters, boyfriends or girlfriends. An immense shock, therefore, for this sporting community, gathered in silence and emotion.
Twenty minor victims
A total of 40 people lost their lives in the Constellation fire. Most were very young: twenty were under 18 years old. If some victims were identified in the first hours of the tragedy, others were missing for a long time. Their faces then circulated on social networks, embodying the disaster – like that of Arthur, whose mother, still looking for her son, had testified in several media. Or that of Caroline, whose father Joël confided in his pain at losing a child.
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Still others were mourned away from the cameras, in the silence and privacy of homes.
While most of the victims had gathered to party, several worked at Constellation. As a bouncer, DJ or waitress, like the young French seasonal Cyane. Alongside the 22 Swiss victims, there are eight French people, six Italians, a Portuguese woman, a Belgian, a Romanian and a Turk. They have been returned to their families and some have already been buried.
Tribute to Geneva
On Thursday, a ceremony was organized to pay tribute to them at Geneva Cathedral. “I come here to support these families, these people who were too young to leave,” confides a young man present that evening. “I absolutely had to come to say goodbye to them, it’s very important,” adds another participant. “We lost friends, we can also say that it could have been us. My cousin lost a lot of friends, we have to be united and think of them,” testifies yet another.
Forty lives cut short in Crans-Montana. Through these tributes, the country says goodbye to them and promises not to forget them.
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