Rome, 6 January (LaPresse) – The Crans-Montana Municipal Council issued a statement expressing its ‘deep regret’ at the discovery of ‘failure to comply with periodic inspections’ of the Constellation bar, where a New Year's Eve fire killed 40 people, ‘between 2020 and 2025’. The last inspections of the premises took place in 2016, 2018 and 2019. ‘The courts will determine the impact of this failure on the chain of events that led to the tragedy,’ added the Municipality of Crans-Montana, stating that it will assume ‘all responsibility as determined by the courts’. The Municipal Council announced its decision to send in a specialised external consulting firm to ‘carry out, without prior verification, a complete audit of all public buildings in the municipality and assess the quality of the materials in order to ban the use of pyrotechnic devices in all enclosed spaces throughout the municipality.’
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