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Salvatore Parascandola, a lawyer for Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino, is mobbed by the media as he leaves the Florence court.
Rome - An Italian court on Tuesday refused to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.
The court in Florence rejected two requests: one from prosecutors to jail Schettino and another from Schettino to be freed.
Schettino commanded the ship with 4 200 people that ran aground off the island of Giglio on January 13, killing 17 people and leaving 15 missing. He is being investigated for suspected manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the vessel before all its passengers were evacuated.
The ship remains partly submerged off Giglio island.
Officials plan to remove about 2 400 tons of heavy fuel from the vessel, but that has been delayed by rough seas and bad weather. Once the fuel is withdrawn, the massive ship will be broken into pieces and taken away - a process that could take many months. - Sapa-AP
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