The bodies of seven passengers were recovered after the yacht sank in a storm.
Authorities investigating the sinking of a superyacht off the Sicilian coast that claimed the lives of seven people said a manslaughter probe has been launched in the case.
« We have opened a file against unknown persons with the hypothesis of negligent shipwreck manslaughter », Ambrogio Cartosio, the chief prosecutor of the Sicilian town Termini Imerese, said Saturday at a press conference.
Cartosio added, « We are taking care to keep the investigation secret as this is the law. »
The prosecutor said the ship’s captain, who survived the sinking, is not currently detained but asked that he remain available in Sicily so the prosecutors can speak to him again.
