Italy wants to take civil action after the Montana fire
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Italy wants to become a civil party in the proceedings concerning the fire at the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana.
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It is demanding that all the facts about the tragedy be made clear, said Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on Tuesday.
“It is right for Italy to ask to be a civil party in the trial [on the fire], because it is a wound inflicted on the whole country,” Tajani said in an address to the Senate.
The upper house of the Italian parliament had previously observed a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy. Six Italians were among the 40 people killed on New Year’s Eve in Crans-Montana.
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