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Costa Concordia: Survivors and relatives of the victims recall the accident
It happened on Thursday ten years ago. In Italy, on the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany, survivors, residents and relatives remembered the victims of the Costa Concordia disaster on January 13, 2012. 32 people were killed. Susanne Mathais was also on board at the time. “After ten years it’s still inside of me. I can never forget that in my life. And it’s sad that so many people had to die. And it means a lot to me that I can or can stand here today. ” Gregorio Maria de Falco is a Member of Parliament in Rome and a former Coast Guard captain: “After ten years the regret is still the same. If the emergency plan had been activated at the right moment, 32 people would not have died”: The cruise ship was on one Run over rocks, water seeped in, the steel colossus leaned to one side. A dramatic rescue operation followed. Two bodies were only discovered after the fuselage was later dismantled. The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment, among other things for multiple negligent homicide, but wants to admit only part of the guilt himself. The shipping company said it had paid more than 80 million euros in compensation to the people on board.
32 people were killed at that time. Flowers were laid on Thursday on the island of Giglio, in front of which the cruise ship ran onto a rock.