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Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily earlier this week that killed British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others.
Prosecutor Ambrogio Cardozio, who announced the investigation, said investigators found that weather was not the cause of the ship’s sinking, but the crew’s behavior and the way the boat was handled.
He said the investigation was not targeting any individual.
“There are many possibilities for the culprit. It could be just the captain. It could be the whole crew. It could be the guard. We’re evaluating all the factors to see whose behavior we can assign fault,” Cardozio said.
He said the prosecutor’s office has “filed a document against persons currently unknown, charged with negligent shipwreck and manslaughter.”
A British-flagged ship carrying 22 passengers and crew sank on Monday after the world’s tallest mast snapped in half during a violent storm.
Seven bodies have been recovered in the past four days, with divers working nearly 50 meters (160 feet) underwater to retrieve them. The last – believed to be Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah – was found in the rubble on Friday.
The bodies of Morgan Stanley International director Jonathan Blumer and his wife Judy Blumer, prominent American lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and in-house chef Recaldo Thomas are among the other missing persons believed to have been recovered.
Italian authorities have confirmed who went missing from Bayesian, but have yet to release a coroner’s report to formally name those found.
Another lawyer, Rafael Camerano, who spoke at the same conference, said that those killed may have been asleep during the storm, which is why they failed to escape, although he could not be sure that all the bodies were missing. Rooms.
While the cause of the Bayesian spaceship’s sinking is unconfirmed, many believe the boat was struck by a hurricane – one of many types of hurricane. The Coast Guard reported that the boat had been hit by a tornado, while a capsize was reported to the European Severe Weather Database.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
