An 18-year-old Swiss national who was injured within the Recent 12 months Swiss bar fire has died almost a month after the incident.
The death toll from the hearth at Le Constellation, considered one of the worst disasters in Switzerland’s modern history, is now at 41.
Two sources told news agency Reuters the most recent victim was a person who was living near Lausanne within the west of the country.
The general public killed within the blaze were teenagers, and a number of other of the 115 who were injured are still being treated in hospital with severe burns.
The Wallis canton’s public prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said in an announcement: ‘An 18-year-old Swiss national died at a hospital in Zurich on January 31.
‘The death toll from the hearth at Le Constellation bar on January 1, 2026 has now risen to 41.’
No further information has been released.
The bar’s co-owners Jessica and Jacques Moretti have been accused of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence.
A former fire safety officer for Crans-Montana and the Swiss municipality’s head of public safety are also under criminal investigation over the hearth.
Among the many dead were 23 Swiss nationals, eight French nationals, six Italians, one Belgian, one Portuguese, one Romanian and one Turkish national.
Only 4 of those that died were aged over 24, with the oldest aged 39 and the youngest a French 14-year-old.
It is believed the hearth resulted from sparklers attached to champagne bottles lighting flammable soundproofing foam on the ceiling.
Anger continues to grow across the country, with an illustration within the lakeside town of Lutry near Lausanne drawing a whole lot of individuals.
Laetitia Brodard-Sitre, the mother of 17-year-old victim Arthur, told the gang: ‘Today, we are only asking for justice and truth and afterwards we are going to mourn.’
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