The owner of Le Constellation, Jacques Moretti, admitted to investigators that the service door on the ground floor of the establishment was locked from the inside. He also admitted to having changed the ceiling foam that caught fire himself, Swiss public television RTS has revealed. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The service door on the ground floor of the bar Le Constellation was locked, co-owner Jacques Moretti reportedly said. According to information gathered by the RTS investigation team, Moretti told investigators that on the night of the January 1 fire, in which 40 people died and 116 were injured, he noticed that the service door was locked from the inside. Customers trapped behind door The owner of the premises claimed that he himself had unlocked the door from the outside and found several lifeless bodies piled up in front of it, RTS reported. Moretti also stated that he did not know why the door had been locked. The criminal investigation ...
