Defence attorneys for
former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino on Monday
filed two complaints against Schettino's former lover, Moldavian
dancer Domnica Cemortan.
The attorneys claimed Cemortan slandered her ex and
perjured herself when she said Schettino told her a helicopter
was coming to save him from the sinking ship after it ran
aground off Tuscany's Giglio Island in January 2012, killing 32.
Cemortan also suggested Schettino had a "mysterious object"
taken away on the night of disaster.
Dubbed "Captain Coward" by the media for allegedly
abandoning ship without overseeing the evacuation, Schettino
is the only person standing criminal trial over the disaster
after State prosecutors last year rejected a plea bargain offer
from him to accept a jail term of three years and five months.
But they accepted the pleas to suspended sentences of five
other officials, including four ship's officers and the crisis
coordinator of the vessel's owners, Costa Cruises.
Costa agreed to pay a one-million-euro fine to settle
potential criminal charges last April.
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