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On 5 July 2012, Schettino was released from house arrest but mandated to reside in Meta di Sorrento. [36] Prior to Schettino's trial, Pier Luigi Foschi, at that time chairman of Costa, put blame on the captain as being responsible for deviating from the course and sailing close to Giglio. [3] Costa terminated Schettino's employment in 2012. [37]
Schettino was released from jail on 17 January but was placed under house arrest. [75] The house arrest order included an "absolute prohibition against going away or communicating by any means with persons other than his cohabitants". [13] On 7 February, the Court decided to continue Schettino's house arrest. [251]
Disasters and accidents The Greek Coast Guard rescues all 22 crewmen from a Cyprus -flagged vessel Good Faith that ran aground on the Greek island of Andros during a storm in the Aegean Sea. (AP) A 106-car pileup occurs on Yeongjong Bridge in Incheon, South Korea, leaving two men dead and more than 65 people injured. (BBC) Costa Concordia disaster A court in the city of Grosseto convicts the ...
In Italy in 2012, that someone was Francesco Schettino, the captain of the luxury liner Costa Concordia who slammed it into a reef, capsizing off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Thirty-two people died.
The ex-wife of a Los Angeles doctor has been arrested over his alleged "ambush-style" murder, alongside four other suspects. On Thursday, Dec. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) shared ...
Francesco Schettino, the ship's captain at that time, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship. He was sentenced to sixteen years in prison in 2015. The wreck was salvaged three years after the incident and then towed to the port of Genoa, where she was scrapped.
Three years after the original suspect in a nearly 40-year-old double murder was exonerated based on DNA evidence and freed from prison after 20 years, a Georgia man has been arrested and charged ...
On 11 February 2015, the captain at the helm during the sinking, Francesco Schettino, was found guilty by an Italian court on multiple counts of manslaughter, causing the shipwreck, and abandoning his passengers. [57] He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. [57] An Italian appeals court on 31 May 2016 upheld the 16-year prison sentence. [58]