Greek cruise ship captain charged with negligence
The captain and five officers of a Greek cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea were charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence on Saturday, Net state television reported.
Bound for safety: Rescued passengers in a lifeboat taking photographs of the listing Sea Diamond. The cruise ship crashed into a reef off the island of Santorini on Thursday in broad daylight and in mild weather conditions
A prosecutor on the Aegean island of Naxos also charged the six officers with breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, all of them misdemeanours, Net said.
The unnamed officers have been released pending further investigations.
The Greek authorities are trying to determine how the 143-metre cruise ship, the Sea Diamond, crashed into a reef off the Aegean island of Santorini on Thursday in broad daylight and in mild weather conditions.
Around 1,600 passengers and crew were evacuated safely in a three-hour operation, but a French tourist and his daughter are still missing.
The ship sank several hours after the accident.
Coastguard units have been sent to the site to set up anti-pollution measures, as fuel from the ship has been seeping to the surface.
Jean-Christophe Allain, 45, and his 16-year-old daughter Maud, from the region of Angers in western France, are believed to have been trapped in the ship as water-tight doors closed.
Mr Allain's wife Anne, 43, left on Saturday for home with the couple's 14-year-old son Raphael, a French embassy official said.
Bound for safety: Rescued passengers in a lifeboat taking photographs of the listing Sea Diamond. The cruise ship crashed into a reef off the island of Santorini on Thursday in broad daylight and in mild weather conditions
A prosecutor on the Aegean island of Naxos also charged the six officers with breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, all of them misdemeanours, Net said.
The unnamed officers have been released pending further investigations.
The Greek authorities are trying to determine how the 143-metre cruise ship, the Sea Diamond, crashed into a reef off the Aegean island of Santorini on Thursday in broad daylight and in mild weather conditions.
Around 1,600 passengers and crew were evacuated safely in a three-hour operation, but a French tourist and his daughter are still missing.
The ship sank several hours after the accident.
Coastguard units have been sent to the site to set up anti-pollution measures, as fuel from the ship has been seeping to the surface.
Jean-Christophe Allain, 45, and his 16-year-old daughter Maud, from the region of Angers in western France, are believed to have been trapped in the ship as water-tight doors closed.
Mr Allain's wife Anne, 43, left on Saturday for home with the couple's 14-year-old son Raphael, a French embassy official said.