Schettino senteced to 16 years

“Francesco Schettino abandoned ‘the Costa Concordia and leave’ passengers to fend for ‘themselves.”
The judges have sentenced the former  master to 16 years for the sinking of the Costa Concordia.
“Schettino the time when jumped on the lifeboat to abandon the ship – continue – was aware of the ship inclination on the left side or, otherwise moved away deliberately from Concordia thus accepting the risk of leaving people at the mercy of themselves. “

The former master, for the judges, lingered to the point that “when ‘was given the general emergency, the situation on board had slipped into extreme confusion and absence of unequivocal indications, resulting in chaos spreading among crew and passengers “. And when he came down from the ship, Schettino had “the intention of not going back.”