Waitress ‘who started Swiss bar fire wasn’t meant to be working on NYE’

0 January 24, 2026 10:12

The parents of the waitress at the centre of the deadly Swiss bar inferno have revealed their daughter was never meant to be working at the venue where she died.

Jerome and Astrid Panine say they are still struggling to comprehend how their “happy-go-lucky” daughter Cyane ended up in the basement of Le Constellation in the early hours of New Year’s Day, where a fire killed 40 people and injured more than 100.

Speaking at their home in Sète, southern France, the couple said the nickname ‘La Fille au Casque’ (‘the girl in the helmet’) has unfairly reduced their daughter to a symbol of catastrophe.

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