Costa Concordia captain back in court
- 11 years ago
The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia ship, Francesco Schettino, enters an Italian court for a pre-trial hearing.
The court will decide who should stand trial and under which charges for the Costa Concordia crash, which killed 32 people in January 2012.
The hearing is taking place in a theatre in the centre of the Tuscan town of Grosseto to allow a large number of people to attend the proceedings if warranted.
Prosecutors are seeking to have Schettino tried on charges including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship.
They also want to send five other Concordia officers to trial over the accident.
The lawyer representing Francesco Schettino said the captain was feeling depressed.
He is a man like everybody else, he is only human, he said.
His legal team is set to request a simulation of the wreck using a twin ship or if that's not possible, a computer simulation.
But any additional tests or simulations would further pro
The court will decide who should stand trial and under which charges for the Costa Concordia crash, which killed 32 people in January 2012.
The hearing is taking place in a theatre in the centre of the Tuscan town of Grosseto to allow a large number of people to attend the proceedings if warranted.
Prosecutors are seeking to have Schettino tried on charges including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship.
They also want to send five other Concordia officers to trial over the accident.
The lawyer representing Francesco Schettino said the captain was feeling depressed.
He is a man like everybody else, he is only human, he said.
His legal team is set to request a simulation of the wreck using a twin ship or if that's not possible, a computer simulation.
But any additional tests or simulations would further pro