“When your child’s death throes are on video. And the last image of your child is one of him punching the windows of a burning bar from which there is no escape. How do you proceed?” Our reporter Sabine Vermeiren, herself a mother of four children, sees the absolute horror in Crans-Montana this week, fortyfold. “Forty parent couples have to continue without their child, and it is impossible to imagine what that must be like.”
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OWN VIEW. “12 hours after I picked up my daughter on New Year’s Eve, I flew to Crans-Montana because 40 other mothers’ children never come home.”
Bytaketonews
Jan 5, 2026