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February 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
In documents filed in the Tuscan town of Grosseto, where the investigation is
based, prosecutors said the nautical charts that Capt Schettino relied on
for navigation were on too large a scale and therefore unreliable.
In a television interview on the day after the disaster, he claimed that the
rocks that the rammed into were not marked on his maps.
Prosecutors also said the large number of people on the bridge at the time of
the Jan 13 collision, including the ship’s head waiter, a purser and Miss
Cemortan, 25, “generated confusion and distraction for the captain”.
The death toll from the disaster stands at 25, after eight bodies were found
by divers inside the flooded hull on Wednesday. Seven people are still
missing.
Capt Schettino was particularly “upset” over the discovery of the body of the
youngest passenger missing in the tragedy, five-year-old Dayana Arlotti, his
lawyer said.
“My client is always upset when bodies are found, but even more so for the
little girl,” said Bruno Leporatti.
The body of the child’s father, William Arlotti, 36, was identified on
Thursday by a tattoo of a Native American warrior on his arm.
Prosecutors allege that the captain’s negligence and misconduct were
compounded by errors made by senior officials from Costa Cruises, the
Italian company that owns the ship.
They have broadened their investigation to include three Costa Cruises
employees, including Manfred Ursprunger, the vice-president, and Roberto
Ferrarini, the head of the company’s crisis management unit.
He was in regular contact with the skipper on the night of the disaster but
prosecutors accuse him of being “culpably unaware of the real situation on
board the ship” and of falling to verify the information provided by Capt
Schettino.
The captain initially claimed that the ship was suffering from a power
failure, and then allegedly downplayed the seriousness of the collision,
even as water flooded into the ship’s engines rooms through a massive gash
in the hull.
The emergency management unit limited itself to “bureaucratic aspects…and to
the future prospects of repairing the ship,” prosecutors allege.
The captain and his officers acted with “imprudence, negligence and
malpractice” and waited too long to give the order to abandon ship.
Four of the ship’s officers are also now under investigation, along with Capt
Schettino and the first officer, Ciro Ambrosio.
On Thursday, prosecutors lodged two new charges against the captain, accusing
him of abandoning incapacitated passengers and failing to inform the coast
guard in Livorno, on the mainland, of what was happening on the ship.
He was already charged with abandoning ship, causing a disaster and multiple
counts of manslaughter and is under house arrest at his home near Sorrento,
south of Naples.
Divers were expected on Friday to resume their search of the hull in the hope
of locating the bodies of the remaining seven missing people.
Prosecutors and a judge will discuss the evidence in the case, including the
information contained in the vessel’s “black-box” recorders, at a pre-trial
hearing on March 3.
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