Local authorities in the Swiss Alps town of Crans-Montana said on Tuesday they failed to conduct periodic fire and safety inspections over the past five years at a bar where an inferno killed 40 people and injured 116 others.
"Periodic inspections were not conducted between 2020 and 2025. We bitterly regret this," Crans-Montana Mayor Nicolas Féraud told a press conference in the Alpine ski resort, five days after the disaster at Le Constellation bar during New Year celebrations.
