Cruise line fined over fatal sinking

Italian cruise line Costa Crociere has been fined a million euros (£850,000) for the Concordia cruise ship sinking which killed 32 people.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Apr 2013, 17:27 BST

Costa had asked for a plea bargain deal to respond to the administrative sanctions, which under Italian law are for companies whose employees commit crimes. Judge Valeria Montesarchio of the Tuscan tribunal accepted the plea after a hearing.

Costa, a division of Miami-based Carniva., has sought to blame the disaster entirely on captain Francesco Schettino, who took the cruise ship off course and rammed it into a reef off the Tuscan island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.

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Grosseto prosecutors are seeking indictments for Schettino and five other people on charges including manslaughter.

A preliminary hearing behind closed doors is scheduled for Monday.

Among the five are the helmsman, two other officials who were on the bridge during the grounding and the Costa official on land who was managing the crisis.