It ended with the seizure. Practically a “self-abduction”. There Flying team Of Toasts he sealed the cruise ship Mykonos Magic that the Interior Ministry had rented – for the modest sum of 6 million euros – to host the almost 3 thousand policemen, carabinieri and financiers involved in guaranteeing the safety of the world’s greats gathered in Borgo Egnaziain the countryside of Fasanofor the summit of G7. A turning point therefore arrives after days of controversy for the sanitary conditions of the ship and the decision to vacate it by transferring almost all the agents to hotel facilities and 500 of them on another ship – the Gnv Azzurra – rented in emergency and which, according to the unions, would be “even more inadequate”.
The evidentiary seizure was ordered by Brindisi prosecutor’s office for the “relevant ones critical health and hygiene issues And serious housing shortagessuch as to integrate the crime of fraud in public supplies”. The Central Operations Service and the flying squad policemen started the operations investigations and explain that the elements “collected so far and the need for further investigative insights also of a technical nature made it necessary to adopt the seizure decree”. They are also there to support SCO and the Flying Squad port authorities and carabinieri dei Nas.
“Right now the Brindisi flying squad is preceding the seizure of the ship moored at the port of Brindisi, due to the numerous public complaints, also made by our trade union organisation, which have arrived in the last few days”, he announced Domenico Pianesegeneral secretary of the Police Union Coispon Wednesday morning, recalling that the ship was supposed to host over 2,500 law enforcement officers and that, from the first moments they boarded, the officers noticed the poor sanitary and hygienic conditions. In particular “dirty and damaged accommodation, unusable toiletsdilapidated showers, flooded cabins”.
Conditions that, in the end, on Tuesday he was also forced to admit Ministry of the Interiorunderlining that the possibility of doing so is not excluded cause to the shipping company. In some video that circulated in the local media were actual footage puddles of water caused by the loss of systems, to which are added faulty air conditioners and the material leakage from the splits of the air conditioning which was deposited on the bed sheets. “It’s not clear how it was possible to rent it without having done acareful inspection before letting the agents leave,” Pianese underlined on Tuesday.
