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Costa Concordia captain back in court

2013-05-14 44 Dailymotion

The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia ship, Francesco Schettino, enters an Italian court for a pre-trial hearing.<br/> <br />The court will decide who should stand trial and under which charges for the Costa Concordia crash, which killed 32 people in January 2012.<br/> <br />The hearing is taking place in a theatre in the centre of the Tuscan town of Grosseto to allow a large number of people to attend the proceedings if warranted.<br/> <br />Prosecutors are seeking to have Schettino tried on charges including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship.<br/> <br />They also want to send five other Concordia officers to trial over the accident.<br/> <br />The lawyer representing Francesco Schettino said the captain was feeling depressed.<br/> <br />He is a man like everybody else, he is only human, he said.<br/> <br />His legal team is set to request a simulation of the wreck using a twin ship or if that's not possible, a computer simulation.<br/> <br />But any additional tests or simulations would further pro

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