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With regard to the sinking of the Boccaccio, RINA reiterates and confirms the correctness of its work
The families of the victims - point out the law firms Ambrosio & Commodus and Bona Oliva and Associates - expect the Italian courts to quickly go to the merits
May 7, 2020
Remembering that more than a thousand people lost their lives whenthe Al Salam Boccaccio '98 suffered a fire in overturned and sank on 3 February 2006 in the Sea Red while en route to Egypt from Saudi Arabia and that four years earlier a sister ship named Al Salam Petrarca 90 , also classified and certified by RINA, suffered a fire on board, capsized and sank into the Red Sea in route to Egypt from Saudi Arabia, and also recalling that In 2013, hundreds of survivors and relatives of the victims ofthe Salam Mouth '98 have initiated an action to get the damages against RINA and the Italian Naval Register Genoa Tribunal, with the parties who have supported certification of the ship as suitable for navigation is not was in response to the actual condition of the ship and causal contest in the cause of the shipwreck, the lawyers Stefano Bertone and Marco Bona, respectively of the law firms Turin-based Ambrosio & Commodus and Bona Oliva and Associates sponsor the case in Italy and the Court of Justice families of the victims together with Carlo's lawyers Villacorta (Spain), Jean Pierre Bellecave (France), Nigel Taylor (United Kingdom), Robert Lieff (U.S.A.) and Yasser Fathy (Egypt), specified that "after so many years, interest in the case from some of the families we represent is intact, and it is expect the Italian courts to quickly go to the merits.'
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