{"id":7074,"date":"2026-01-15T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:17","slug":"they-walked-in-to-celebrate-and-never-came-home-%f0%9f%92%94-white-coffins-silent-parents-and-a-detail-from-inside-the-swiss-bar-that-families-say-still-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7074","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTHEY WALKED IN TO CELEBRATE \u2014 AND NEVER CAME HOME.\u201d \ud83d\udc94 White Coffins, Silent Parents, and a Detail From Inside the Swiss Bar That Families Say Still Doesn\u2019t Make Sense Across Europe this week, church bells rang \u2014 not in celebration, but in grief. One by one, white coffins were carried through packed streets as thousands gathered for funerals of the teenagers killed in the devastating Swiss bar fire. Parents clutched photographs. Friends wore school scarves. Entire towns stood still. \u201cRest in peace, children,\u201d whispered mourners as the coffins passed. But behind the public mourning, new, unsettling questions are beginning to surface. Several families have quietly revealed that the final moments inside the bar may not match the initial timeline they were given. A detail mentioned during one private service \u2014 overheard by attendees \u2014 has already begun circulating among locals, raising fresh doubts about what truly happened in the minutes before the inferno erupted… WATCH VIDEO BELOW \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devastated families have started burying their loved ones who were killed in a bar fire while ringing in the New Year in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana.<\/p>\n

The funerals of the six Italian teenagers who were among the 40 killed in the New Year\u2019s Eve blaze were being held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Achille Barosi and Chiara Costanzo, both sixteen, were buried in Milan, while services for victims Giovanni Tamburi and Riccardo Minghetti were held in Bologna and Rome respectively.<\/p>\n

The family of Emanuele Galeppini,\u00a0 a 17-year-old golf prodigy from Genoa, asked for privacy and chose not to disclose the time and location of his funeral.<\/p>\n

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A service for Sofia Prosperi, an Italian and Swiss national, took place in her home town of Lugano.<\/p>\n

Schools across\u00a0Italy<\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday also held a minute\u2019s silence to honor the victims.<\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s education minister Giuseppe Valditara observed it with students at Milan\u2019s Orsoline Di San Carlo school, which Achille attended.<\/p>\n

The six teenagers were partying at the \u2018Le Constellation\u2019 bar in the Alpine resort when a fire \u2013 believed to have been caused as wait staff waved champagne bottles plugged with sparkles close to the ceiling \u2013 tore through the venue in the early hours of New Years Day.<\/p>\n

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Pallbearers carry the coffin of 16-year-old Riccardo Minghetti, who died at the \u2018Le Constellation\u2019 bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland during a New Year\u2019s Eve party, during his funeral at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome, Italy, January 7, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mourners hug each other during the funeral of 16-year-old Riccardo Minghetti<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A man carries a picture of 16-year-old Riccardo Minghetti at his funeral on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Investigators believe it then rapidly developed into a \u2018flashover\u2019 \u2013 likely igniting much of the venue in seconds and rendering escape almost impossible<\/p>\n

Forty people hailing from seven different countries were killed: 26 of those were aged between 14 and 18. Some were burnt beyond recognition, and were only identified through the use of DNA analysis.<\/p>\n

Among the dead were 10 Swiss males aged 16 to 31; 11 Swiss females aged 14 to 24; one 24-year-old woman who held dual Swiss-French nationality; three 16-year-old Italian boys and two Italian girls aged 15 and 16, and five French males aged 14 to 39.<\/p>\n

Two French women aged 33 and 26; a 15-year-old girl with triple British-French-Israeli nationality; a 16-year-old boy who held dual Italian-UAE nationality; an 18-year-old Romanian boy; a Belgian 17-year-old girl; a Portuguese 22-year-old woman and an 18-year-old Turkish boy were also identified.<\/p>\n

Achille, 16, reportedly went back to Le Constellation at 1.30am on New Year\u2019s Day after leaving without his phone and jacket.<\/p>\n

Moments later, the fire took hold \u2013 and the teenager from Milan was later confirmed to be among the dead.<\/p>\n

His aunt had described him to the media as an avid painter, and had been attending an art school in the Italian style capital.<\/p>\n

His cousin, Edoardo Sparacino, told Italian news agency ANSA: \u2018I spoke to Achille\u2019s friends who were there and they told me that my cousin had returned to the club for a moment when the explosion occurred.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Family members and friends gather to say goodbye to Giovanni Tamburi, one of the six Italian nationals killed at\u00a0at the \u2018Le Constellation\u2019 bar in Crans-Montana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mourners attending the funeral service of 16-year-old Giovanni in Bologna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Achille<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Achille Barosi died after returning to Le Constellation to retrieve his phone and jacket just as the fire broke out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Chiara<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Chiara Costanzo, 16, had gone to Le Constellation \u2018by chance\u2019 on New Year\u2019s Eve. Her father said she had been to the bar before with friends<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Giovanni Tamburi, 16, lived with his mother in Italy but had gone to Switzerland to holiday with his father<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sixteen-year-old Chiara Costanzo from Milan went to Le Constellation with friends \u2018by chance\u2019 for New Year when tragedy struck.<\/p>\n

Her father, Andrea Costanzo, confirmed to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that his daughter was among those killed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I just received the phone call that should never come to a father. A dull, unspeakable pain: my beloved Chiara is no longer with us,\u2019 he told the daily.<\/p>\n

He had hoped that his daughter would be among those missing, her identity yet to ne confirmed, before his worst fears were realised.<\/p>\n

Andrea described his daughter as \u2018the most extraordinary to ever walk the earth\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018The pain now is greater than the thirst for justice. I don\u2019t even know if it will ever come. Now I just feel a great emptiness\u2019, he added.<\/p>\n

Sofia Propseri, 15,\u00a0grew up in Castel San Pietro in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and had been attending the top International School of Como in Italy at the time of her death.<\/p>\n

Italian media reported that the Italo-Swiss national had joined a group of friends to return to Switzerland to see in the New Year when tragedy struck.<\/p>\n

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\"Sofia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sofia Prosperi, 15, had joined a group of friends in Crans-Montana to celebrate New Year on a break from studies in Como<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Riccardo Minghetti went to Le Constellation to celebrate New Year with his sister. She was outside the club when the fire started and survived<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emanuele Galeppini was a talented young golfer who had been rising through the ranks with wins and podium places at junior events across the world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Authorities added her to the list of missing people after friends went through images and videos of the party, recognising her among those who had not left the club.<\/p>\n

Friends took to TikTok to pay tribute, one reported to have written: \u2018All this makes no sense. We were supposed to keep growing together.\u2019<\/p>\n

Matteo Prosperi, the mayor of Castel San Pietro, told Swiss publication La Regione: \u2018We are close to the family and share their grief.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rome native Riccardo Minghetti, 16, was reported by local media to have gone to Le Constellation with his sister Matilde \u2013 but she was outside when the fire started.<\/p>\n

The pair had gone to Crans-Montana as their mother owns there. He was a member of EUR Sporting Club.<\/p>\n

Matilde suffered minor injuries to her hands as she tried to push through the crowds looking for her brother; his parents Massimo and Carla were then told on Sunday morning that he did not make it out alive.<\/p>\n

Giuseppa Tomao, headmistress of the Stanislao Cannizzaro scientific high school in the Italian capital\u2019s EUR district, which both siblings attended, said Matilde suffered burns to her hands as she helped rescuers dig through the wreckage.<\/p>\n

Riccardo\u2019s friend Manfredi Marcucci, who also went to the club, survived with 40 per cent burns to his body, according to reports. The pair had been to the venue before.<\/p>\n

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A photo appears to show the moment champagne sparklers set fire to material on the ceiling of the Swiss nightclub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Flowers and candles are pictured in tribute to the victims of the fire at \u2018Le Constellation\u2019 bar and lounge in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 05 January 2026<\/p>\n

His family had last spoken to him at midnight on New Year\u2019s Day, according to Corriere della Sera \u2013 but could not get hold of him again as news of the blaze broke.<\/p>\n

Another 116 were injured, some of them still fighting for their lives.<\/p>\n

Le Constellation\u2019s French owners Jacques and Jessica Moretti are under investigation, suspected of manslaughter, bodily harm and causing a fire, all by way of negligence.<\/p>\n

Investigators are examining whether the soundproof material used on the ceiling of the bar conformed to safety measures.<\/p>\n

Former staff have also claimed that safety standards at the club were poor, alleging that fire extinguishers were kept under lock and key and that the bar\u2019s emergency exit was often locked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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