"Particularly disconcerting statements." This is what the presidents of the two associations that bring together the families of the 140 victims of the Moby Prince disaster, Luchino Chessa and Nicola Rosetti, declared after the Florence DDA asked the investigating judge to shelve the investigation today . "Listening to the Livorno prosecutor Maurizio Agnello, we felt like we had gone back to 1991," the joint statement said. "After 34 years, he returned to talking about fog as a possible cause of the collision and of a ferry that was too fast and that, with a straight course, hit the oil tanker anchored in an area prohibited from anchoring and with its bow to the north. Scenarios that have now been overcome and that attribute the responsibility for the most serious tragedy in Italian merchant shipping and the greatest workplace massacre to the imprudent conduct of the Moby Prince crew."
The tragedy occurred on the evening of April 10, 1991, following the collision with the oil tanker Agip Abruzzo in the harbor of Livorno, with the fire that devastated the ship - headed for Olbia - and caused the death of 140 passengers and crew members . Chessa and Rosetti observe that the prosecutor "supports his statements in particular on the statements of the only survivor of the Moby Prince, the cabin boy Alessio Bertrand, who modified his statements numerous times; and in any case he reports the presence of fog only later on April 10 and not because he saw it but because it was reported to him by another member of the crew immediately after the collision."
The commentary continues: «Agnello is confident that everyone died in a short time, but the expert reports of the first parliamentary commission of the Senate have undoubtedly highlighted a survival of hours for many people and hypothesizes that if the rescue had been adequate they would not have recovered people alive: we hope that the parliamentary commission does not take into account the various suggestions, from whomever they come, and the scenarios that have emerged from this hearing that only harms the search for the truth and that it goes its own way, indeed we ask how it intends to proceed from now on ».
(Online Union)