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Wrecked Costa Concordia liner makes its final journey

2015-05-12 43 Dailymotion

The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner has made its final journey as it was towed to its last berth where it will be demolished.<br /><br /> The vessel which ran aground near the island of Giglio in 2012, killing 32 people was pulled 16 kilometres across a port in Genoa 10 months after it was taken there to be dismantled.<br /><br /> The liner had to stripped of enough material to allow it to pass over the breakwater of the Prà Voltri Port, its final destination.<br /><br /> It marks an important moment for the vessel which was the site of Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World War.<br /><br /> It also caused controversy during the court case of Captain Francesco Schettino who was sentenced to 16 years jail for manslaughter, five for causing a shipwreck, one for abandoning ship, and an extra month for giving false information to authorities after abandoning ship before all 4,200 passengers were safely ashore.

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