Lucca, 10 Nov. (LaPresse) – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Livorno has initiated proceedings to request the dismissal of the case against persons unknown concerning the Moby Prince ferry disaster, which occurred in the roadstead of the port of Livorno on 10 April 1991, resulting in the loss of 140 lives. This case had been registered “with this Public Prosecutor’s Office,” writes the Public Prosecutor of Livorno, Maurizio Agnello – for the offence referred to in Article 422 of the Criminal Code (intentional mass murder) following the submission of the final report by the Second Senate Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the Moby Prince disaster, presented on 11 December 2017, which had highlighted several critical issues, errors and omissions in the reconstruction of the facts carried out in the past. At the same time, the Florence District Anti-Mafia Directorate had also opened a separate investigation to look into any possible mafia or terrorist links to the disaster.” The investigations proved fruitless and led – as the statement from the Livorno Public Prosecutor’s Office further states – “to a request for the case to be dismissed on 3 December 2024, which was granted by the judge for preliminary investigations in Florence by decree dated 27 February 2025. The new, in-depth investigations were conducted by this Public Prosecutor’s Office with the assistance of the GICO unit of the Florence Financial Police and included the examination of numerous witnesses, the acquisition of documents from public bodies and private companies, the commissioning of multiple technical and scientific expert reports, and telephone interception activities.”
Moby Prince: Public Prosecutor’s Office initiates proceedings to request the case be dropped
Lucca, 10 Nov. (LaPresse) – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Livorno has initiated proceedings to request the dismissal of the case against persons unknown concerning the Moby Prince ferry disaster, which occurred in the roadstead of the port of Livorno on 10 April 1991, resulting in the loss of 140 lives. This case had been registered “with this Public Prosecutor’s Office,” writes the Public Prosecutor of Livorno, Maurizio Agnello – for the offence referred to in Article 422 of the Criminal Code (intentional mass murder) following the submission of the final report by the Second Senate Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the Moby Prince disaster, presented on 11 December 2017, which had highlighted several critical issues, errors and omissions in the reconstruction of the facts carried out in the past. At the same time, the Florence District Anti-Mafia Directorate had also opened a separate investigation to look into any possible mafia or terrorist links to the disaster.” The investigations proved fruitless and led – as the statement from the Livorno Public Prosecutor’s Office further states – “to a request for the case to be dismissed on 3 December 2024, which was granted by the judge for preliminary investigations in Florence by decree dated 27 February 2025. The new, in-depth investigations were conducted by this Public Prosecutor’s Office with the assistance of the GICO unit of the Florence Financial Police and included the examination of numerous witnesses, the acquisition of documents from public bodies and private companies, the commissioning of multiple technical and scientific expert reports, and telephone interception activities.”