Key dates in Costa Concordia shipwreck, trial and cleanup

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FILE Seagulls alert successful beforehand of the grounded cruise vessel Costa Concordia disconnected the Tuscan land of Isola del Giglio, Italy, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Italy connected Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, is marking the 10th day of the Concordia catastrophe with a daylong commemoration, honoring the 32 radical who died but besides the bonzer effect by the residents of Giglio who took successful the 4,200 passengers and unit from the vessel connected that rainy Friday nighttime and past lived with the Concordia carcass for different 2 years earlier it was hauled distant for scrap. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Italy connected Thursday marks the 10th day of the Costa Concordia cruise vessel wreck disconnected the Tuscan land of Giglio. Here are immoderate cardinal dates successful the saga, including the proceedings of the skipper and the singular engineering feat to close the liner from its broadside truthful it could beryllium towed distant for scrap.

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Jan. 13, 2012: The Costa Concordia slams into a reef disconnected Italy's Giglio land aft the captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered it taken disconnected people and brought it adjacent to enactment successful a stunt. It drifts without powerfulness until it comes to remainder connected its broadside offshore. After weeks of searches, rescue crews corroborate 32 radical died.

Jan. 15, 2012: Prosecutor Francesco Verusio confirms rider allegations that Schettino abandoned the Concordia earlier each the passengers and unit had been evacuated.

Jan. 17, 2012: Schettino is placed nether location arrest.

Jan. 17, 2012: Dramatic audio of the shipwreck is broadcast successful which Coast Guard Cmdr. Gregorio De Falco uses colorful expletives to bid Schettino to get backmost connected committee to coordinate the evacuation. “You’ve abandoned ship! I’m successful complaint now,” De Falco yells. “Go backmost and study to maine however galore passengers determination are and what they need. ... Perhaps you saved yourself from the sea, but I’ll marque you wage for this, damn it!”

Jan. 20, 2012: Costa's CEO tells Italian authorities TV that Schettino relayed inaccurate accusation to the institution and unit and downplayed the seriousness of the concern aft the vessel deed the rocks, delaying the mobilization of due assistance.

July 9, 2013: Schettino goes connected proceedings for manslaughter, abandoning vessel and causing the shipwreck. The proceedings is held successful a 1,000-seat theatre connected the mainland successful Grosseto, a spacious venue truthful survivors and relatives of victims tin attend.

July 20, 2013: Five Costa employees are convicted of manslaughter successful a abstracted trial, receiving sentences of little than 3 years aft entering plea bargains.

Sept. 17, 2013: Fog horns wail soon aft 4 a.m. to denote the Concordia had been wrenched from its broadside and reached vertical aft 19-hour cognition utilizing chains and weighted tanks to close it from the seabed.

Oct. 8, 2013: The remains of 1 of the 2 radical inactive missing is located by divers moving connected the wreck, aboriginal identified arsenic Italian Maria Grazia Trecarichi.

Feb. 1, 2014: A Spanish diver moving connected the Concordia wreckage dies aft seemingly gashing his limb connected an underwater metallic sheet, quality reports say.

July 23, 2014: As vessel sirens wail and bells toll, the Concordia begins its last voyage arsenic it is towed from Giglio to beryllium turned into scrap. It arrives successful Genoa’s shipyard connected July 27.

Nov. 3, 2014: The assemblage of Indian waiter Russel Rebello, the past missing victim, is recovered by crews dismantling the vas for scrap successful Genoa.

Feb. 11, 2015: The tribunal successful Grosseto convicts Schettino and sentences him to 16 years successful situation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the vas earlier passengers and unit had been evacuated, arsenic good arsenic for giving mendacious accusation astir the gravity of the collision.

May 31, 2016: An appeals tribunal successful Florence upholds the condemnation and condemnation for Schettino aft some the prosecution and defence appealed. The prosecution sought to toughen the condemnation to 27 years portion the defence argued that blasted didn’t autumn solely connected Schettino.

May 12, 2017: Schettino loses his last entreaty and heads to situation aft Italy’s highest Court of Cassation upholds his erstwhile condemnation and 16-year sentence.

January 2018: Coast Guard Cmdr. De Falco, who won planetary fame for his rant against Schettino, nominates himself arsenic a lawmaker for Italy's 5-Star Movement governmental party. He is expelled from the enactment aboriginal that year.

December, 2021: A Genoa tribunal orders Costa Crociere to wage 92,700 euros ($105,000) to Concordia rider Ernesto Carusotti successful 1 of the fewer civilian lawsuits to scope a verdict against the company.

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This mentation corrects the spelling of Grosseto.

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