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Concordia captain trial adjourned after lawyers go on strike
The trial of Costa Concordia captain was adjourned yesterday after his Italian lawyers joined a nationwide strike.
Francesco Schettino faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning his ship, which sank off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012, killing 32 people. The trial will resume next week.
Schettino denies the charges, and his defence is expected to argue that no single person was to blame for the accident. He claims his manoeuvring of the ship closer to shore after it had hit rocks in shallow water had saved lives.
The trial is being heard in Grosseto, a city 90 miles north-west of Rome which is nearest to the site of the accident.
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