They will appear on March 5 before the judge of the preliminary hearing of Crotone Elisa Marchetto the six soldiers – four of the Guardia di Finanza and two of the Port Authority – accused of Hitty shipwreck and manslaughter Plurimo in the context of the procedure concerning the delays in the rescue and negligence that would have occurred on the occasion of the shipwreck of the Caicco Summer Love that took place as a spa of Cutro on February 26, 2023 causing the death of 94 people. In front of the gup of the Court of Crotone, Giuseppe Grillo, the shift leader of the operating room of the Provincial Command of Vibo Valentia of the Guardia di Finanza and the Aironavale Operational Department (Roan) of the Yellow Flames will appear; Alberto Lippolis, commander of the Roan of Vibo Valentia; Antonino Lopresti, officer in command and tactical control in the Roan of Vibo Valentia; Nicolino Vardaro, commander of the Taranto aeronaval group; Francesca Perfido, inspection officer in service in the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Center of Rome, and Nicola Nania, inspection officer in the secondary center of Maritime Rescue of Reggio Calabria.
Serious negligence, imprudence and inexperience are the accusations contested by the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Crotone, Pasquale Festa, to the six people investigated. The guilt profiles hypothesized against the financiers essentially focus on the executive methods of the actions to be carried out following the sighting of the boat. In particular, the omitted complete communication of navigation difficulties encountered due to the metemarine conditions was contested, as well as the delay in preparing the interception operations of the Caicco, in the absence of an effective and effective radar monitoring “. As regards, however, to the members of the Coast Guard – explain the investigators – the dispute revolves around the failure to acquire information necessary to have an effective picture of what the Guardia di Finanza was doing “to which it achieved a lack of evaluation of the operational scenario e of the consequent provisions to be imparted to the coastal guard boards who were also in a position to intervene ». In the notice of fixing the preliminary hearing, eighty offended parts are mentioned, largely the survivors and relatives of the victims of the shipwreck. Ilaria Cucchi and other Italian parliamentarians, the military union, the Codacons, the democratic financiers union, various NGO associations, also set up as offended people.
