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Jacques Moretti has been placed in pretrial detention for at least three months. He and his wife, Jessica Moretti, are under investigation over possible negligence.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the English media is misreporting this. He's been remanded to jail pending trial as a potential flight risk, but he can leave jail by posting a bond / bail.

I think Swiss media just reports it differently because it's more common to be let go with a promise to reappear for your trial and no bail, so they report this as his being remanded as a flight risk, whereby in American and Britain the default is typically being released on bail, so reporting that they were remanded implies that bail was denied.

In English language news this is more commonly headlined as "judge sets bail for Swiss bar owner".

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It could only be negligence to cover the ceiling with flammable materials then allow open flames. What's shocking is how common it is for this exact scenario to play out--acoustic foam that is not fire resistant and pyrotechnics.

There is a bar/restaurant nearby me where they had to shut down their restaurant due to repeated health violations. They converted into only a bar but were eventually forced to stop serving alcohol because they kept overserving people and serving minors--this caused them to close down entirely. Weirder: it's a historical building. A company who specializes in restoring neon signs offered to do it for free and the owner apparently screamed at them until they left.

The moral? These are probably terrible people.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He admitted the emergency exit was locked. When they unlocked it after the fire, there were patrons bodies piled up in front of it.

His negligence absolutely contributed to those people's deaths.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

wow, I never knew about that. Terrible

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was the bar up to code? I have no idea what building codes are like in Europe. I get the feeling that even if codes are as strict as the US, a lot of older dangerous or disabled-unfriendly buildings are grandfathered in due to the age of cities there.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know the answer already: did it have fire sprinklers? I remember they made a recreation of the Station Nightclub fire (Rhode Island 2003), but with fire sprinklers.

Even with the flammable acoustic foam covering the walls, the conclusion from the test is that sprinklers would have likely prevented all of the fatalities and drastically reduced injuries.

Safety codes are written in blood.