Crans-Montana, authorities: “Hospitals at the limit, priority is to identify victims”

Rome, Jan. 2 (LaPresse) – Identifying the victims “is the priority of the Valais government” so that “families can begin their mourning process.” This was stated to FranceInfo by Patricia Constantin, president of the Valais cantonal parliament, regarding the massacre at the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The local hospitals “are really at the limit of their capacity,” she added. “Of the roughly one hundred people hospitalized, many have not been identified, either because they had no identity documents or because their personal belongings were lost in the fire — for example, along with their clothes,” said Stéphane Ganzer, head of security for the Canton of Valais, to RTL. “It will probably take another day” to identify them, he added.