I am under investigation for multiple murder and culpable wreck the captain and the owner of Norman Atlantic, the ferry caught fire off the coast of Albania. Rose to 11 dead, including three Italians, while 427sono people saved. But it is yellow on the missing: 38 seconds Greece.
Three truckers partenopei – according to reports – have died in the terrible fire of the ship. The three truck drivers were employees of the firm Eurofish. To recognize the bodies of the family members. The three Neapolitans were carrying out a transport of fish for New Year’s Eve dinners. These are their names: John Rinaldi 34 years, 55 years and Carmine Balzano Michele Liccardi 32 years all married and with children. The three Neapolitans were employees of the company EuroFish whose director, Pietro Avolio, is also president of the consortium Neapolitan fish. The victims are working at the headquarters of the Mugnano Eurofish, companies based in Naples, Volla, Mugnano and Spain.
Men’s Master showed relatives of transporters photos of two bodies recovered a short distance from the ferry. The three truck drivers of EuroFish transporting products regularly on the route Igoumenitsa-Bari on board the ferry company SuperFast. In this case, however, used the Norman starting from Igoumenitsa, arriving in Ancona to logistical issues. The three had left by plane 26 with destination Igoumenitsa, there they found the truck, took the goods (a load of eels) and headed to the port to board the ferry. The arrival was planned for 28 to Ancona.
The three have died from hypothermia. After the fire the three have called Avolio (company president EuroFish) by raft. Would in fact been among the first to escape from the ship. Because of the rough sea the boat rolled over, making the three end up in the sea; shortly after the death ipotemia. This is the most reliable reconstruction of the facts. On the phone with the three Avolio told with words of dread those moments. Shortly after the tragedy.
Two more dead. Meanwhile, the medical team of the ship San Giorgio Navy intervened in an accident on the tug Iliria, involved in towing the ferry Norman Atlantic. When towing wire breakage of trailer hit two sailors Albanians. Both died.
The ship San Giorgio , where they were rescued about 180 castaways of Norman Atlantic,
is still in the vicinity of the ferry fails and then slide his arrival in the port of Brindisi that was scheduled in the morning. The ferry Norman Atlantic, however, would currently be towed by a vessel toward Albanian Vlora. At the following ferry Norman Atlantic proceeding towards Vlora there are also tugs Italian family brindisina Barretta. The latter has been delegated by the prosecutor in Bari, as auxiliary police, to execute the seizure of the ship and to deal with the judicial custody of the vessel. The guardian appointed Francesco would Barretta.
The bodies of the victims will be brought to Bari. The commander Argilio Giacomazzi left the ferry after left alone on board along with four officers of the navy. 8 Recovered bodies of the 10 confirmed dead, 2 others, informs a tweet of the Navy, are still on the wreck. 38 others shipwrecked ferry Norman Atlantic are expected in the morning at the port of Manfredonia (Foggia).
does not add up. “I do not pronounce on the issue of the missing: to forecast the number seems absolutely premature,” said the ministers Wolves and Pinotti at the press conference. “The point is uncertain if anyone in the agitated to launching the boat, has fallen into the sea. By way of precaution we moved starting from the official list. Gradually, as we proceeded in the relief effort went honing names saved comparing them with the list of boarding we got a clear picture “.But in the ship there were a dozen illegal Afghans, three deui which save on San Giorgio. Among the 427 saved There are 56 crew members, including 22 Italians. Among the passengers, 234 Greeks, 54 Turks, 22 Italians, 22 Albanians, 18 Germans, 10 Swiss and then other nationalities.
“Many people unfortunately fell overboard. I have also seen a dozen people who were on board a boat which then ended up in the sea and do not know what happened to them, “said one witness. “We heard yelling” fire, fire “, the fire and the fire in five minutes – says the man – the whole ship was on fire. It was dark and there was a lot of smoke. There was little to be done: many people fainted, we were isolated. ” The man would have to go to Rome, where he would spend the New Year together with friends.
The flames are matches from the garage of the ship . “We’ll burn like rats, we are in danger and do not know how we will resist,” is the dramatic story of who is still on the deck of the ship. The nightmare begins at 4:30 am about twenty miles off the coast of Albania: the ferry, owned by the shipping company Visemar navigation, had departed from Patras and, after a stop in Igoumenitsa, was expected in Ancona at 17 Sunday.
The victims. Georgios Doulis died while trying to reach a lifeboat. His body was recovered and transferred to a patrol boat in Brindisi where they were taken even more seriously wounded four, two who were on board the ship, a Navy Rescue swimmer and a soldier of the Harbour. On the corpse arrived in Brindisi is however a yellow.
The Norman Atlantic , which can accommodate up to 836 passengers and 250 cars, was chartered in December by the Greek company Anek Lines to replace the ship Ellenic Spirit, currently under maintenance, for connecting Venice-Igoumenitsa-Patras: the contract will be completed in mid-January. What has sparked the flames will be investigations to clarify; perhaps a short circuit, possibly a problem in one of the 128 truck in the garage, some loads of oil.
“Ship overloaded ‘. Some truckers ferry was overloaded and the “top heavy vehicles was friction with the garage ceiling, it may be that a spark is started from there.” It will always be an investigation to clarify whether there were deficiencies with the doors: inspection carried out 10 days ago by the International Paris Mou had shown a “failure” of the structures that need to prevent a fire from spreading. But the owner of the ship, Carlo Visentini, denies “the problem was but it was quickly resolved. The ferry was fully functioning. “
The fire. The fact is that the fire has spread very quickly reaching the upper decks. The ferry immediately became unmanageable and the commander said abandonment. Despite this edge have managed to drop one lifeboat, which were put in unless forty people. The crew would also be able to contain the fire to the bridge 5, but the high temperatures and above the thick smoke are likely to transform the ferry in a steel coffin for hundreds of people.
L ‘investigation. Open three investigations by the prosecutor in Bari, Lecce and that of Brindisi, culpable for the sinking. The prosecutor of Bari, Giuseppe Volpe explained that it is a first configuration of crime. Fox stated that ‘you are acquiring the first technical listening shipwrecked and rescuers “and then it will be evaluated with the prosecutor in Lecce” the final configuration of the offense and the local jurisdiction. “
The wreck . The Visemar Navigation, shipping company of Norman Atlantic, instructed the Dutch company Smit, specializing in rescue naval operations for the recovery of the wreck which lies a few miles from the Italian coast.
The shipowner: certain efficiency ship . “The company is confident in the work of the investigative authorities – said the owner Carlo Visentini – that will have to find the exact cause of the accident, but it is certain the full efficiency of the ship, a ship of recent construction, with all the necessary certifications to operate ». So Admiral Carlone to P.Chigi: “The ship was inspected December 19 in Patras: 6 deficiencies were found of which 2 immediately resolved” and still “no relevance” in the fire. “For the other four had been prescribed the solution in 14 days. The ship was fully efficient, met all the requirements. “
Relief difficult. To make it even more difficult relief efforts, coordinated by Italy, the conditions prohibitive weather. Throughout the morning of Sunday, the sea force 7-8 waves raised by more than five meters, making it impossible to approach maneuver the ship in flames. In the afternoon the conditions improved slightly but the wind of 35-40 knots and poor visibility forced rescuers to operate only with helicopters. The aircraft of the Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard Italian, all day so have been commuting between the ferry and the ships in the area: the Italian, Greek and Albanian ones and merchant hijacked in the area.
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