0:00
Well, first of all, the press conference was very informal
0:02
It was on the street. There's a barrier separating the crowd, the media
0:07
and the location, the venue where the tragedy happened. It was also with a Swiss official
0:15
He didn't say much, but at one point he actually said, clearly there's something that went wrong there
0:19
And a journalist tackled him, saying, well, a little bit more than something small
0:25
Clearly, there's something big happening there. And the ambassador has also issued a statement
0:33
the Italian ambassador in Switzerland, saying that the safety exit wasn't enough
0:40
so that location was illegal. So I think Antonio Tajani, the Italian Foreign Secretary
0:47
is playing down a bit, but there's clearly a big pressure from the Italian authorities
0:52
on the Swiss local and national authorities, why so many young people, as young as 13 years old
1:01
were allowed into such a location. At the moment, the total is 47 dead, 6 unaccounted
1:08
and 13 heavily injured in Italian hospitals, Italian and Swiss hospitals. Obviously, Mark, we're looking at the floor plan of the Bar Hig
1:16
It's understandable, the anger coming from the Italian authorities and indeed many of the families and obviously the people that are still in hospital in awful conditions still It is understandable how much anger there is when you consider the environment that this fire happened in
1:36
I mean, there was one exit, flammable material. It seemed like there were an awful lot of very young people in there as well
1:44
Yes. What is likely to have happened is a phenomenon called flashover
1:49
which means if you start a fire in such a closed environment
1:54
with so much oxygen, which clearly was the case of this club
1:58
at 1.30 in the morning on New Year's Eve, then that generates an explosion
2:04
So not only the fire, not only the roof and the ceiling made of wood
2:08
and clearly all the furniture, but the effect of a bomb. Some of the witnesses heard a bomb
2:14
Because there is a synagogue next to the club, some people thought it was a terrorist attack
2:18
What happened, in fact, was a tragedy of the combination of oxygen, the flame, and the fact that people were trapped in there
2:27
So clearly, the people, the two French, well, the French couple running the club will have to be held responsible
2:35
But also, there's various authorities that allow that to happen. We see several father and mothers saying, that's the kind of place where my kids used to go every night
2:44
So he walked for a New Year's Eve celebration. It was a regular local club where all the posh, rich kids of Cross Montana would go
2:53
So that is something that will be taken into account. Yes
