Tuesday was not a reassuring day for those who persist in hoping for a procedural truth on the fire of the Moby Prince, for a judicial breakthrough that indicates specific responsibilities for the fire of the ferry that on 10 April 1991 cost the lives of 140 people, including passengers and crew , with one sailor the only survivor.
From the hearing of the chief prosecutor of Livorno, Maurizio Agnello, it emerged that the Florentine DDA has asked the investigating judge to archive the proceedings : there is no reason to believe that the massacre was wanted, therefore nothing links it to terrorist or mafia scenarios that would make it the responsibility, precisely, of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
As for the Livorno investigation opened in 2018, investigators are still sifting through the 1,400 pages of the report drawn up by the Finance investigators. But in outlining the developments , the hypothesis of fog has emerged once again to explain the collision of the ferry with the Agip Abruzzo oil tanker . A development that has demoralized the two associations of relatives of the victims, who in a statement speak of "shocking statements". And they have pushed the president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry, the Orunese deputy of Forza Italia Pietro Pittalis, to release a note to ensure that the search for the truth continues.
" I can't understand how this hypothesis continues to remain in the field - explains Pittalis - when both the first commission of inquiry and the second and now this third one that I have the honor of chairing have ascertained that that evening there was absolutely no fog". Then the promise to move forward, because "it is our precise duty to give answers to the victims' families anyway". As for the judicial investigation, the opinion is of a "dated, outdated reconstruction".
