Heads of bar associations condemn attacks on Crans-Montana defence lawyers

The bar presidents of cantons Valais, Vaud and Geneva on Friday condemned the attacks on the lawyers of Jacques and Jessica Moretti, owners of the "Le Constellation" in Crans-Montana, where 41 people died in a fire on New Year's Eve. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Their reaction comes a day after a very tense hearing with the couple. In a statement published on Friday, the three bar associations said they condemned "in the strongest possible terms the verbal and physical attacks and threats made against defence lawyers". + Crans-Montana bar owners confronted by fire victim relatives As presidents of the bar, "it is our duty to point out that the time for justice is not the time for the media, and that the mission of lawyers is to represent each of the parties in order to guarantee a fair trial. Justice must not be the media's justice, nor that of private justice", they wrote. The chairs of the bar refered to the "climate of tension" in which the ...