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Two young French women who were in the bar of the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana where A deadly fire broke out this New Year’s Eve, they have recounted how the fire occurred and spread, how they fled and the panic that was generated among the attendees who were trying to flee.
“everyone was screaming“, one of these two young women highlighted this Thursday when telling the French channel BFMTV what they experienced and that the origin of the tragedy was some flares or pyrotechnic devices that were made in some champagne bottles.
Emma and Albanewho were celebrating the new year at the ‘La Constellation’ bar, observed that the fire started when one of those flares approached the ceiling, which was made of wood.
“In a few dozen seconds“, one of them has indicated, The flames spread throughout the nightclub.which was in the basement of a premises that consisted of two floors. Then the fire also spread to the ground floor in two or three minutes.
The two young French girls ran out screaming and, when they looked back, they saw that there were several people burningof the around 200 that they estimate were in the bar at the time of the events.
One of them fell on the stairs, pushed by a movement of those who wanted to evacuate the bar, and hurt her knee.
As the door was very small To give way to all those who wanted to escape the flames, one of the people who were there broke one of the windows.
According to the story of these girls, the firefighters and the police arrived “in a few minutes” after the start of the tragedy which, according to their story, seemed accidental to them. They didn’t hear any explosion.
The Swiss authorities have announced that The fire caused “dozens of deaths” and “a hundred people injured, many seriously.”
The French Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement that it has news that there are at least two French people among the injured, who have been immediately assisted by the Swiss health services, without ruling out other victims.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, He has expressed on his
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Antonio Tajani, has announced that at least 12 nationals have been injured in the fire and that many others are still missing.
“The situation is dramatic and could get worse,” he warned on the RAI public television news channel, underlining the difficulty in identifying the people involved.