Guillaume, 26, was celebrating the New Year with his friends at a restaurant in the center of Crans-Montana. As the clock approached 1:30 a.m., the group of friends split up. Guillaume - who does not want his last name to be used - and a friend decided to head to the bar Le Constellation.
When they got there, they were met with horrific scenes - people throwing chairs and tables at the window panes, people trying to squeeze through the small door, bodies lying on the ground completely burned.
"They were dead, they had no skin, no faces left," he says in a trembling voice.
He and his friend saw a man who was burned to death but still alive.
"He was shaking with cold, it was freezing outside. We helped him to a building and tried to warm him until the ambulance came and picked him up," he says.
Guillaume, who has lived in Crans-Montana most of his life, finds it difficult to talk about what he experienced. He knows several of the people who work at the bar. He often used to go there after work in the evenings. Now he doesn't know if they have survived.
"The scenes outside the bar come back to me; they are images of horror. I will never forget it. It is worse today than yesterday," he says and adds:
"Crans-Montana is my life, it's my everything. Now I don't know what will happen."
