A 24-year-old server is identified as the person who held the candles that started the deadly nightclub fire in Crans-Montana on New Year’s Day 2026.

Videos released have captured the moment the bar’s roof is fired from the fireworks when they touched the insulation that had been installed.

Cyane Panine, who died on the fatal night at Le Constellation bar, was identified by the owners of the business, according to the interrogation reports cited by the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.

According to the same source, the owner of the business, Jessica Moretti, had asked the young waitress to “liven up the atmosphere” at the bar in the early hours of January 1.

This, as the Daily Mail reports, involved the waitresses putting sparklers in champagne bottles and some of them climbing on the shoulders of fellow waitresses.

According to the brief, Cyane died of asphyxiation “in a pile of bodies behind a locked door.

As the 49-year-old business owner described in his statement, when he opened the basement door, he found the 24-year-old dying while surrounded by “a pile of bodies.”

Speaking about Cyane, the 49-year-old said she was the girlfriend of a close family friend who had “raised her as their own child”. He said he and the 24-year-old’s boyfriend “tried to revive her for more than an hour on the street near the bar until emergency services told us it was too late.”

“Whatever the investigation reveals, this young woman followed the instructions of her employers. She did what the CEO asked her to do. This was not unusual. (…) This young employee bears no responsibility,” lawyers for the 24-year-old woman’s family said in a statement.