“How could they rent it without doing a thorough inspection?” THE labor unions they asked it openly on Tuesday and everything will become clearer when the Brindisi prosecutor’s office will have finished the investigations. But there seems to be no fixed point about the ship disaster Mykonos Magicrented to host almost 3,000 agents during the days of G7 in Fasano and now seized for them “significant hygienic-health critical issues” found on board: Interior Ministry And Police they visited her at March deeming it suitable. They told it a few days ago, the May 27thbrothers Guido And Luca Fertonani to Shipping Italyportal specialized in maritime transport.
The Fertonanis – unrelated to the investigation – are owners of the Genoese naval brokerage company Ferrando&Massone who dealt “directly” with the unfortunate choice, which has now ended up in the crosshairs of the deputy prosecutor’s investigation Antonio Negro that he sees in the state investigated The legal representative from the owning company of the ship: “I representatives of the Ministry and the Police about two months ago they had inspected the ship together with another cruise unit, the Queen of the Oceansand both had been accepted but in the end we opted for the larger one”, they informed Shipping Italy, thus describing the details of the rental.
“The ship will arrive in Brindisi in the very early morning of June 9th and will remain there until the afternoon of June 17th at the end of all operations related to the G7 – they further explained – Each cabin will have a maximum of two passengers; will be administered, always at the owner’s expense, three meals a day for around 2,600 people a day.” The rest is recent history: the protests of the unions for the dirtThe flooding and the malfunctioning of air conditioners; the eviction decided by the Interior Ministry in a hurry; the investigation and seizure by the prosecutor’s office which hypothesizes the crimes of non-compliance of public supply contracts e fraud in public supplies.
A nice business card for the G7. The Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi tried to close the matter by claiming that the “issue is already resolved”. In reality, after days of discomfort, the police were relocated to accommodation facilities in three provinces (Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto) and approximately 500 operators they will stay on board the ferry Gnv Azzurrarented last minute for 2.5 million euros and this too ended up in the crosshairs of the law enforcement unions because it was believed “even more inadequate”. A disastereven more embarrassing for a government that has always shown great closeness to the police, carabinieri and other law enforcement agencies.
The oppositions have already warned that they will ask Parliament for an account of the process of choosing Mykonos Magic, chartered by the Ministry of the Interior with a direct assignment For 6.2 million euros. The history of the cruise ship is rather troubled: built in 2004 in the shipyards Fincantieri of Genoa for Costa Crociere and launched with the name of Costa Magicathe vessel was sold in the post-Covid period to a Liberian company that is part of Seajets, a Greek group that has around thirty ships in its portfolio. Renamed Mykonos Magic it would be modernized into a Turkish shipyard and, according to industry sites, in a few weeks it should have returned to service with mini-cruises between Mykonos and Santorini under the banner of Neonyx Cruisesa company of the Seajets group of the Greek shipowner Marios Iliopoulos: trips intended for adults only with dj set from dusk to dawn. A theoretical launch, given the real conditions of the ship and now the seizure ordered by the magistrates.
