The former commander of the Costa Concordia has started the procedures to serve his sentence in an alternative mode.
10 years after the disaster of the Costa Concordiathe former commander Francesco Schettino he could leave prison soon. Schettino was sentenced on 11 February 2015 to 16 years and 1 month in prison for multiple manslaughter, culpable shipwreck And abandonment of the ship. Since then he has been serving his sentence in Rebibbia prison.
But after serving half his sentence in prison, he can now apply for alternative measures to jail time. And Schettino, who for years has already been engaged in socially useful work within the prison facility, has already asked for alternative measures to detention.
His job would be to digitize documents sitting behind a desk of the State nightclub.
The former seafarer could in fact soon leave prison and be engaged in the digitization of data and documents of some of the great processes of Italian history, starting with that of Ustica massacre.
A task that is generally entrusted to particularly deserving and valid inmates to make immaterial documents and judicial acts of particularly important events that have occurred in our country over the past years.
According to Ansa, Schettino’s new business could start within a few days after attending a training course.
Rejection of the review of the trial at the European Court
Francesco Schettino he was the commander of the Costa Concordia which ran aground off the island of Giglio in January 2012. In that disaster, 32 people lost their lives.
Despite the infamous maneuver of the bow and the fact of having abandoned the ship even when there were still thousands of people on board, Schettino always defended his actions that evening.
Last July, his request for a review of the trial was rejected European Court of Human Rights.
The defense had unsuccessfully raised the question regarding the charge of manslaughter.
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