One narrow staircase and champagne with fireworks: this is how a Swiss disaster night occurred with at least 40 deaths

Champagne bottles with fireworks candles on top, a crowded cellar bar, one narrow staircase and one door to the street: these ingredients turned New Year’s Eve in the Swiss bar ‘Le Constellation’ into a deadly cocktail. A Flemish eyewitness and two French girls who survived the tragedy tell their story.

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