Italian delegation joins Crans-Montana fire investigation

Six investigators from the public prosecutor's office in Rome will be in Valais on Wednesday. They will be given access to the investigation documents concerning the deadly fire in Crans-Montana on New Year's Day. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Italian delegation of judges and police officers will be in the Valais capital of Sion for two days. "The investigative team from the public prosecutor's office in Rome will be accompanied by an interpreter and will have access to all the documents in the file, which comprises several thousand pages," explained the Attorney General of the Canton of Valais, Beatrice Pilloud, to the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. The Italian investigators could inspect the documents, but not make copies of them. In order to obtain a copy of the documents, which do not contain any names, the public prosecutor's office in Rome must obtain a procedural order from the Valais public prosecutor's office. With this interim order ...