Nightclub fire in Switzerland

Arson is the traditional revenge of a man "dumped" by a girl, or the wrath of a "woman scorned" as the case may be.

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How many people had been "trespassed" off the property of the nightclub bar establishment by bartenders or by regulars who had remained in the good graces of the bartenders up until that fateful night when the New Year began?

Swiss hotels were at one time famous throughout the world for their high values of hospitality but at some time in the last century they became notorious for maintaining and enforcing various "blacklists" against certain guests who were deemed "undesirable" on some unspecified grounds. Switzerland has consequently fallen behind Europe's "New Iron Curtain" and ceased to be a major tourist destination. Tourists simply don't want to deal with the cantons or boroughs or weird parochial districts which are always at law with trespassing or mental health concerns.

Proof of adulterated wine

Molotov cocktails served at the bar

This was no common champagne or sparkling wine, but gasoline perhaps containing 10% alcohol by volume. It was placed in open bottles on the bar, and sparklers, the fireworks, were lit and set in the bottles as fuses. And the bartender left the scene, nobody the wiser.

Dumb Swiss and dumber yet. Distilled alcohol instead of or in addition to that which is naturally fermented in the wine. Get a few preachers from local churches expounding what Christians should or should not drink instead of what the label says, to boot.

Swiss investigators believe sparkling candles atop wine bottles ignited fatal bar fire

Investigators say they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year’s Eve revelers.

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Wine or beer (or any similar drink such as mead, sake, etc.) containing naturally fermented alcohol only simply isn’t capable of bursting into flames like that. Only a distillery can produce alcohol in sufficient concentration to burst into flames if lit. A napkin soaked with naturally fermented wine can't be set on fire with a kitchen match that easily.