“Hai ucciso mio figlio, pagherai”: famiglie furiose attaccano i proprietari di un nightclub svizzero dove morirono 41 persone nell’inferno di Capodanno
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/swiss-nightclub-owners-families-court-moretti-5HjdSGb_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
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Can’t even imagine the pain. Families physically attacking the owners, 41 dead, dozens critically burned, all because of one packed nightclub inferno on NYE. Swiss authorities better not sweep this under the rug. Accountability has to come fast.
They really deserve to get the book thrown at them.
My friend was there. He narrowly escaped… what a sad situation.
While i totally understand the sentiment, this was not very smart by the families, if they want the accused to get a harsh punishment.
Press smear campaigns (there were a lot of factually false reports about the accused), as well as lynch mob mentality and threats by the families against the accused will unfortunately force (under Swiss law and federal supreme court precedent) the courts to give the accused a (potentially substantial) sentence reduction.
See also [this article](https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/katastrophe-von-crans-montana-das-quasi-oeffentliche-verfahren-kann-tiefere-strafen-bedeuten) “The quasi-public trial can mean lighter sentences.” (in German) published yesterday by Swiss public television, which mentions:
>Above-average media coverage can lead to a prejudgment for the accused. And this, in turn, can be considered a mitigating factor by a court, leading to a corresponding reduction in the sentence. “A media prejudgment can influence the sentence,” says criminal law professor Markwalder. “If the burden of the prejudgment has been very high, the court can take this into account. The trial itself, with intensive media coverage, can be a greater burden than the actual sentence.”