Crans Montana: Jessica Moretti also accused of false invoices. she, "Just lies"

“We want to collaborate with justicewe have always been massacred. We have always answered the questions and many falsehoods have been said about us.” This is the spontaneous declaration of Jessica Moretti to the investigators a Sion as part of the investigation into the fire atLe Constellation‘.

For the first time she and her husband Jacques Moretti are heard together with the formula of “comparison procedure“, that is, they answer the questions asked of them in the same room.

According to what legal sources told AGI, after his wife’s spontaneous declaration, Jacques Moretti stated that “it was very badso much so that I can’t even speak” after the massacre in the club Crans-Montana where 41 people died, mostly very young people, and over a hundred were injured. Numerous lawyers for the civil parties participate in the interrogation and will in turn be able to ask questions to the accused couple murder, fire and injuries, negligently.

The New Year’s Eve tragedy and previous interrogations

The last interrogation of Moretti, the main suspect in the investigation, was scheduled for April 7 but it was postponed for health reasons.

The two owners have already been interviewed twice since the beginning of the criminal investigation; the man had been placed in precautionary custody on January 9 and then released on January 23 behind bail of 200,000 Swiss francs (220,000 euros), before the couple was subjected to restrictive measures.

The framework of the investigation: 14 suspects and the mystery of the sound-absorbing foam

Overall they are 14 people were investigated on charges of manslaughter, bodily harm and negligent arson. These include several elected officials and former municipal employees, whose leaders admitted immediately after the disaster that in the premises safety and fire checks had been missing since 2019.

The initial results of the investigation suggest that the fire was caused by fountain candle sparks who set fire to it sound-absorbing foam on the basement ceiling. In addition to clarifying the municipality’s potential responsibilities, the investigation aims to examine the prevention measures adopted by the owners and to reconstruct the exact sequence of events.

Precisely on this front, they are opening up now new accusations for Jessica Moretti. During the ongoing interrogation in Sion, the Swiss prosecutors actually challenged her presentation of an alleged false invoice relating precisely to highly flammable sound-absorbing mousse which apparently started the fire at ‘Le Constellation’ on last New Year’s Eve.

This was reported by a legal source present at the confrontation between the investigators and Moretti, explaining that “the prosecutors suspect that the invoice is false because there are some inconsistencies“. In any case, it remains to be ascertained the reason why the document could be untruthful, a detail which could also be linked to simple tax reasons.