La Cutting di Supreme Court ha rejected il appeal of defense of the former commander Francesco Schettino against the ordinance of the Court of Appeal di Genoa that last February denied la review of the process for shipwreck of Costa Concordia, which took place on January 13, 2012 in front ofLily island and that it cost his life a 32 Guests.
Commander Schettino remains sentenced to 16 years in prison
Il Commander Schettino he is therefore condemned to sixteen years di reclusione. Waiting to know the motivations (not yet filed) which have pushed the Supreme Court not to accept the request for a new trial, remains the disappointment of the Legal who have witnessed Roller-skate, the lawyers Saverio Senese e Paola Astarita.
“I don't hide my bitterness - declares Sienese a 'The Nation' -. I continue to believe that the conviction for the shipwreck was completely legitimate, but the conviction for manslaughter and abandoning the ship left me with many doubts. Let us acknowledge that the final word has fallen on this case which, in my opinion, remains a great miscarriage of justice”.
The defense: "The new evidence was not taken into consideration"
La defense of the Commander Schettino he underlined in the appeal how the Genoese judges did not take into consideration the new evidence (a video and two technical consultancies) that had been filed. Simply declaring it inadmissible “on the fly”, namely without going into the merits of the new documents.
In particular, the new evidence presented in support of the request for a review of the trial concerns the estate with watertight doors, “true culprit in the capsizing and sinking of the Concordia”, according to the reports filed by the defense, together with the failure to function of the diesel generator di emergency.
Il Court di Grosseto condemned Roller-skate theFebruary 11, 2015 and the sentence was confirmed laid down by the Court of Appeal di Florence a year later and surrender final laid down by the Supreme Court il May 12, 2017, the day the former commander crossed the gates of the prison Roman of Rebibbia.
In these five and a half years, Roller-skate He has already left prison a few times with permits award and since last September has been benefiting from the alternative measures, engaged as archivist of digitization of the acts of the massacre di Ustica.
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