Italian cruise ship captain gets 16-year jail sentence

2015-02-12 1

The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia luxury liner has been given a 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter for his role in a 2012 shipwreck near an Italian island.

Francesco Schettino had told the court trying him for 32 shipwreck deaths that his "head was sacrificed" to safeguard economic interests.

Al Jazeera's Claudio Lavanga reports.

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