Crans-Montana: some footage from the city’s surveillance cameras lost

Milan, Jan. 30 (LaPresse) – Despite repeated requests, the surveillance camera footage from Dec. 31 in Crans-Montana, shortly before the deadly fire that devastated the Le Constellation bar, was not saved and has therefore been lost. This was reported by Bfmtv. The prosecutor’s office was provided with footage from the Crans-Montana municipal surveillance cameras, but only those recorded between midnight and 6 a.m. on January 1. On January 5, the public prosecutor requested from the inter-municipal police “footage from municipal surveillance cameras between 12:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on January 1, 2026.” Then, on January 15, a new request was submitted by the prosecutor, specifically “for the period from December 31, 2025, at 11 p.m. to January 1, 2026, at 3 a.m.” On January 22, an initial response from the cantonal police appeared in the file: “Our video surveillance system records and stores images for a maximum of seven days. Therefore, after 6 a.m., we no longer have access to the images from December 31, 2025, and those from January 1, 2026.“ However, the police specified that they had saved the images ”from January 1, 2026, from midnight to 6 a.m. These are accessible.” The images before midnight could be useful to investigators in determining how many people entered Le Costellation to celebrate New Year’s Eve and how crowded the venue was.