Rome prosecutors on Thursday
asked to indict two Italian navy officers for an October 2013
migrant boat wreck off Lampedusa in which 300 people including
many children died.
Luca Lucciardi, an operations room chief, and Leopoldo Manna,
head of the Coast Guard operations centre, are accused of
refusing to do their duty and culpable homicide in culpably
delaying the intervention of Italian navy ship Libra on October
11 that year.
The migrant boat went down in Maltese waters.
The indictment requests are a consequence of a preliminary
hearings judge's rejection of a suit to shelve the case on
November 13.
The judge at the time ordered charges to be pressed against
Lucciardi and Manna and also ordered further investigations into
Libra commander Catia Pellegrino.
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