Five other people have been charged over the disaster, including the ship s Indonesian helmsman and

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise is reported hertzs rental for sale cars to have requested a plea bargain sentencing deal at what has been described hertzs rental for sale cars as an emotional hearing in his trial on Wednesday, as a court clerk read out the names of the 32 people who died in the shipwreck.
Francesco Schettino lawyers has asked judges for a plea bargain deal in which their client would serve three years and five months in prison in exchange for admitting responsibility for the disaster, according to an AFP report.
With Italian tabloids billing Schettino as Italy s most hated man , Schettino is accused of manslaughter and abandoning hertzs rental for sale cars ship in the disaster off the island of Giglio, facing up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted.
With survivors of the January 2012 tragedy saying they were still haunted by the memories of that night and wanting the trial to finally shed light on what went wrong, Gianluca Gabrielli, a 33 year-old survivor from Rome who was on the cruise with his wife and two children, now five and six said outside the trial, No one helped us , The children hertzs rental for sale cars do not want to fly or take a boat since it happened. They are traumatized.
Inside the improvised courtroom, held in a theatre because of the large numbers expected, a clerk read out a list of the charges against Schettino and the names of all the victims, detailing how each one had died, with some sucked by a water vortex in the ship , others fell into the sea as the boat rolled hertzs rental for sale cars and several of them stranded after failing to find a place on lifeboats during the panicky evacuation.
The trial began last week but was immediately postponed after Schettino s defenders adhered to a national lawyers strike, and it could last for months, with Schettino nicknamed Captain Coward for leaving while terrified people were trapped aboard and then sobbing in the arms of the ship s chaplain.
Some lawyers have been arguing he should not be the sole defendant and Costa Crociere, Europe s biggest cruise operator, should share the blame, with Massimiliano Gabrielli, a lawyer hertzs rental for sale cars for some of the survivors who are suing for compensation, hertzs rental for sale cars accusing Costa of choosing to save the ship instead of saving people .
Five other people have been charged over the disaster, hertzs rental for sale cars including the ship s Indonesian helmsman and the head of Costa Crociere s crisis hertzs rental for sale cars unit, with the five having negotiated plea bargains with short prison sentences, which are due to be ruled on at a separate hearing on Saturday.
The prosecution also wants to call Domnica Cemortan, a young Moldovan woman who was in Schettino s company at the time of impact, as a witness, with Cemortan telling reporters, I m disappointed there is only one person being held responsible.
The Concordia remains beached on her side, its rusting frame dwarfed by blue cranes and a floating hotel for divers and salvage workers, with the vessel due to be righted in September, but officials are concerned that the vessels submerged side may be more damaged than previously thought, with Giglio s mayor Sergio Ortelli telling AFP that nerves on the island were strained, The patience of the inhabitants has been stretched to the limit .