{"id":496681,"date":"2026-01-04T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/france-confirms-the-death-of-a-french-person-in-a-bar-fire-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:25:19","slug":"france-confirms-the-death-of-a-french-person-in-a-bar-fire-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/france-confirms-the-death-of-a-french-person-in-a-bar-fire-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"France confirms the death of a French person in a bar fire in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diplomatie.gouv.fr\/es\/el-ministerio-y-su-red\/ministros-y-secretarios-de-estado-35029\/jean-noel-barrot\/biografia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrot,<\/a> confirmed this Sunday the presence of a 39-year-old French citizen among the forty fatalities of the fire that occurred on New Year&#8217;s Eve in the town of Crans-Montana, in Switzerland.\n\n&#8220;The Swiss authorities have informed us of the death of a 39-year-old French citizen, one of our compatriots, and the identification work (of other victims) is continuing,&#8221; said Barrot in an interview on the France 2 television news.\n\nThe head of French diplomacy recalled that France has taken in 17 victims of the fire in hospitals.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/supremo-ordena-que-delcy-rodriguez-asuma-como-presidenta-encargada-tras-captura-de-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court orders Delcy Rodr\u00edguez to assume as acting president after Maduro&#8217;s capture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn this regard, the minister specified that &#8220;today there are 23 people admitted (of French nationality) in burn units of hospitals and 8 missing&#8221; after the fire at the &#8220;Le Constellation&#8221; bar.\n\n&#8220;This is a terrible tragedy that has personally shocked me, as it has many French people. And I am thinking of the families who are today plunged into anguish, awaiting news of their loved ones,&#8221; said Barrot, who recalled that next Friday &#8220;a tribute will be paid to the victims and their families in Crans-Montana on a day of national mourning.&#8221;\n\nSwiss authorities reported 16 new identifications of fatalities this Sunday, bringing the number of identified deaths from this tragedy, in which 40 people died, to 24.\n\nThe identification tasks are carried out by the Cantonal Police of Valais and the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Switzerland.\n\nIn the fire, 119 people were injured, the majority with very serious and extensive burns.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, confirmed this Sunday the presence of a 39-year-old French citizen among the forty fatalities of the fire that occurred on New Year&#8217;s Eve in the town of Crans-Montana, in Switzerland. &#8220;The Swiss authorities have informed us of the death of a 39-year-old French citizen, one of our compatriots, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25cZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}