The suspects for the New Year’s Eve massacre have four companies in Switzerland and one on the French Riviera. The troubles with the French justice system: fraud and prostitution. Them: «We are devastated, we will not shirk responsibility»
Lively eye, small physique, a past not exactly mirrored in France and a present as a club owner in the Swiss mountains of Skull-Mountain and Lens chased by responsibilities and very serious accusations. They call him «le Corse» due to his Corsican origins but the 49 year old Jacques Moretti has been established in the Canton of Valais for over ten years. With him, his beautiful thirty-nine year old wife Jessica Maricalso born in Corsica but raised on the French Riviera, high school in Antibes and university in Monaco.
The Swiss network
In Switzerland they share businessthat is, the four companies of which they own 50%: Le Constellation, the one in the lounge bar of the New Year’s Eve massacre detected in 2015 and become a symbol of Crans’ nightlife, a sort of disco which however is not included as an activity in the documents of the Central Valais Commercial Register where the company appears to have a share capital of 20 thousand Swiss francs; Le Sensoa bar opened in 2020 also in Crans-Montana and specialized in burgers; The Old Chalet 1978which owns a restaurant opened in the nearby village of Lens where they offer specialties from Corsica, a land to which he remained very attached. In the end Le Constela company founded in 2022 for the operation of bars (the Petite Maison, whose license was revoked, is also part of the group).
Between Cannes and Paris
In short, an important growth for the resulting French spouses investigated by the cantonal prosecutor’s office for multiple murderspersonal injury and negligent fire. But there is not only Switzerland in Jacques and Jessica’s little empire. She, who by tragic irony of fate is daughter of a Cannes fireman and also nephew of the President of the municipal forest fire committee of Auribeau-sur-Siagne, he is in fact the owner of a company in Cannes for the rental and management of properties.
Own or someone else’s? The official documents say that the headquarters is in Villa Ad’Alta in Rue Leon Noel. That is, a quarter of an hour walk from the Promenade de la Croisette and therefore from the beaches. Until two years ago it also had a “branch” in Paris on rue de Tocqueville, a 9-minute drive from the Arc de Triomphe. But then it was closed and it is not clear whether Jessica Maric was the owner of a property, which was later sold, or only had the headquarters where she carried out intermediary activities, an activity of which, however, there is no trace. Villa Ad’Alta in Cannes is a modern property, presumably a condominium with multiple apartments and owners (value around 5 thousand euros per square meter). And the owner could also be Jessica Maric who uses the individual company to rent. Among other things, the Villa Ad’Alta apartments are offered for tourist rental on various web platforms.
In prison for fraud
In short, not just bars and restaurants. As for Moretti’s past, some problems with the French justice system have emerged. About thirty years ago he was involved in ainvestigation for exploitation of prostitution while in 2005 he ended up in prison for fraud, kidnapping and kidnapping.
Yesterday the couple, in silence since the day of the massacre, decided to speak: «We are devastated and overwhelmed by pain, our thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and those who are fighting for their lives. Words cannot adequately describe the tragedy.” Finally, a message to the investigators: “We are ready for full collaboration and we will not try to escape our responsibilities.”
