Swiss nightclub owners blame waitress killed in New Year’s Eve fire for tragic blaze: ‘It’s not us, it’s the others’

The owners of a Swiss resort bar where 40 people died in a New Year’s Eve blaze brazenly blamed their helmet-wearing waitress — who was seen holding two flaming champagne bottles in photos from the doomed bash — for sparking the tragic fire that claimed her life.

Jacques Moretti, 49, and his wife, Jessica Moretti, 40, appeared in court last week over the deadly fire at the Le Constellation nightclub in Crans-Montana and told prosecutors, “It’s not us, it’s the others,” when asked about responsibility for starting the inferno, French newspaper Le Parisien reported.

The couple, charged with “homicide, injuries and arson by negligence,” blamed their waitress, Cyane Panine, 24, for the fire.

French waitress Cyane Panine died in the Jan. 1, 2026, fire