Lawyer: Cruise captain “saved hundreds” of lives
ET ROME – The captain of a crippled cruise craft rancid Tuscany was placed under mansion arrest Tuesday, according to his lawyer, who assumed his clients dealings saved hundreds if not thousands of lives. Capt. Francesco Schettino recounted his version of the dealings leading to Friday nights wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise convey beforehand prosecutors and a authority by a preliminary inquiry. 5 supplementary bodies found on Costa ConcordiaCruise liner a mammoth challenge on behalf of Italy diversAmateur capture on film from Costa Concordia cruise liner 81 PhotosLuxury cruise liner runs agroundView the round Gallery » Prosecutors partake of accused Schettino of manslaughter, causing a hulk and abandoning his liner facing all passengers were evacuated in the instruction of the liner. The captain might elevation up to 12 years wearing prison on the abandoning dispatch charge lonesome. Schettinos attorney, Bruno Leporatti, believed with the purpose of now the trial, the captain had insisted with the purpose of next the primary crash into the reefs, he had maneuvered the craft close to seashore now a way with the purpose of saved hundreds if not thousands of lives.