People gather around a makeshift memorial to pay their respects by laying flowers, candles and messages near the Constellation bar, on January 4, 2026, in Crans-Montana in honour of the victims of the fire that ripped through the venue in the luxury Alpine ski resort on New Year's Eve
The Swiss ski resort bar where dozens of young people perished in a New Year fire will be repurposed as a youth venue, the top regional official said in a newspaper interview published Saturday.
A total of 41 people were killed in the tragedy at the Le Constellation bar in Switzerland's plush Crans-Montana resort town in the early hours of January 1 -- mostly teenagers -- while another 115 were injured.
"Concerning the future of Le Constellation, it will never be reopened as a bar," Christophe Darbellay, the president of Switzerland's southwestern Wallis region, where Crans-Montana is located, told the Le Temps daily in an interview.
"This space must be dedicated to young people."
