The captain of a cruise liner that crashed into rocks off Italy has been placed under house arrest following a court appearance. Prosecutors have accused Captain Francesco Schettino of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship while passengers were still stranded. dispute between the magistrates whether to detain or put under house arrest Schittino.
Released by the investigating magistrate of Grosseto, the commander of the ship sunk in the night Lily is back in his home.
The villagers condemn his behavior, but are asking that both the judge and the media to judge.[photo
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Prosecutors announced the appeal: "It could stillescape" No danger of escape, but the risk of tampering with evidence: so the magistrate Valeria Montesarchio of Grosseto, had argued his decision not to validate the firm and to arrange the house for Schettino, which detects the investigating judge, was on the rocks at the ship.
The fact that there has been abandoned by the master of the ship Schettino does not mean that there is a risk of flight. Schettino had begun by claiming everything was fine, shortly before the ship keeled over off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 on board, according to the timings of the recording.
At 9.49pm he was asked by a port official over the ship radio: "Concordia, is everything OK?" The response from the ship was "positive", Il Fatto Quotidiano reported.
The recording of his conversation with Italian coastguard Captain Gregorio De Falco indicated his response was met with fury and an order that he return to his ship. "You go on board and then you will tell me how many people there are," Capt De Falco reportedly shouted. "Is that clear?" But Schettino resisted, saying the ship was tipping and that it was dark. At the time, he was in a lifeboat and said he was co-ordinating the rescue from there.
Capt De Falco shouted back: "And so what? You want to go home, Schettino? It is dark and you want to go home? Get on that prow of the boat using the pilot ladder and tell me what can be done, how many people there are and what their needs are. Now. "You go aboard. It is an order. Don't make any more excuses. You have declared the abandoning of the ship, now I am in charge.
" Schettino, 52, was finally heard agreeing to reboard but it was unclear whether he did so Internet explodes protest and outrage to the granting of the house, surprise is expressedalso by the prosecutor of Grosseto verus Francis: "I do not understand the measure of Gip -he says - I'm curious to read the motivations and tomorrow along with other colleagues willtake act.
Five more bodies were discovered by divers of the Coast Guard at the stern of the CostaConcordia, in the ship now under water.
Are beginning the recovery of bodies jointly withfire.
This brings to 11 the death toll of the shipwreck discovered on Friday night. At the moment "are not tracked 29 people." It is spread by the crisis unit at the Civil Defence of the Province of Grosseto on the official number of missing the sinking island of Giglio. "There are still ongoing procedures for the identification of the sixth victim recoveredyesterday - said the prefect Joseph Linardi - probably already included in the list of 29 nottraced."
A HISTORY:
'MY GRANDMOTHER SURVIVED THE TITANIC'
A survivor of the Costa Condordia cruise ship disaster is the grand-daughter of a woman who survived the Titanic tragedy 100 years earlier.
Valentina Capuano, 30, said she was 'dumbstruck' that history was repeating itself when the giant Italian ship began sinking on Friday night.
Her grandmother and great uncle had both been aboard the Titanic when it sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to new York in 1912.
Her grandmother survived but her great uncle Giovanni - working as a waiter aboard the ship - was one of the 1,517 people who died.
Ms Capuano was travelling with her fiance, her brother and his girlfriend when the 140,000 tonne vessel struck rocks off the Italian island of Giglio.
She said: 'It was like re-living history, it was horrible, I was really shocked. I am still shaken up and get very upset when I think about what I've been through, I have heart palpitations.'
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